A Rare Change At The Top Of High School Wrestling Poll

Middletown CT

12 January, 2022

12:47 PM

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CONNECTICUT — For the past six years, the weekly Connecticut high school wrestling poll has always featured Danbury as the leading vote-getter. However, that has changed, as a 44-19 loss to Xavier propelled the Falcons into the top spot. Xavier received all 15 first-place votes to become the first school other than Danbury to occupy the pole position since 2015. The Hatters finished second in the weekly balloting of coaches and media members, followed by Fairfield Warde. Here are the top 10, with last week's ranking in parentheses, as well as all other programs collecting votes. Xavier (lw: 2)Danbury (lw: 1)Fairfield Warde (lw: 3)Simsbury (lw: 4)Killingly (lw: 5)Foran (lw: 6)New Fairfield (lw: NR)New Milford (lw: NR)Newtown (lw: 9)East Hartford (lw: 8) Also receiving votes: Staples, Guilford, Branford, Avon, Trumbull, Berlin, Haddam-Killingworth, RHAM, Norwalk, Windham, Ledyard, Pomperaug, Hall, Southington, Ellis Tech, Platt. Voters: Charlie Anderson, Trumbull; Matt Boissonneault, Bristol Central; Mike Cunningham, Xavier; Gerry deSimas Jr., Connecticut Wrestling Online; Chris Gamble, Waterford; David Green, Nonnewaug; Tim Jensen, Patch Media; Paul Musso, New Fairfield; Chris Piel, New Milford; Patrick Risley, Windham; Matt Schoonmaker, Jonathan Law-Milford; Jason Shaughnessy, Fairfield Warde; Ricky Shook, Danbury; T.J. Silva, Simsbury; Jimmy Zanor, Norwich Bulletin.Compiled by Gerry deSimas Jr.