The penultimate weekend of dual meets has already come and gone. Below, we recap who made the most of their second-to-last regular-season matches, and who has been slipping in the top 20 rankings. 

2018-19 NCAA Rankings

Stock Is Up

149: Brock Mauller (Missouri)

From #9 to #5

Mizzou looked set at 149-pounds coming into the season, with All-American Grant Leeth returning for at least another year of eligibility. However, following the Cliff Keen Las Vegas Invitational on Dec. 1, injuries would force Leeth to miss the rest of the season, and true freshman Brock Mauller's redshirt was torn off as he was pressed into service. 

The Missouri native has been sublime all season, dropping just one match to Jarrett Degen, who he also has a victory over. Mauller's most recent, and perhaps most impressive win, was a 10-defeat of Oklahoma State's Kaden Gfeller. That marked Gfeller worst loss of the season according to margin of victory, and it propelled Mauller into the top five for the first time in his nascent college career. 

Check out highlights from Missouri's dual against Oklahoma State, including Mauller's near major decision over Gfeller below:

285: Chase Singletary (Ohio State)

From #18 to #11

Chase Singletary's season has been a microcosm of the heavyweight division as a whole, which is to say, it's been highly volatile. A rough CKLV set Singletary back a bit, but he's been finding his grove lately, beating the highly ranked David Jensen on Sunday. Wins over Conan Jennings and Mason Parris from earlier in the season provided the extra boost for Singletary to jump up seven whole spots in the top 20.

Singletary and Jensen's match starts at about the 1:52:00 mark in the video below:

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184: Max Dean (Cornell)

From #12 to #6

When you beat two All-Americans in one weekend, good things tend to happen. For Dean, that means dispatching Zack Zavatsky and Chip Ness in consecutive dual meets and soaring up six spots in the rankings. Zavatsky and Ness finished sixth and seventh respectively at the NCAAs last year in Cleveland. 

184: Drew Foster (Northern Iowa)

From #10 to #4

Sometimes you beat two All-Americans, other times you have an idle weekend but your whole weight class gets a shake-up and your previous two wins over Zack Zavatky forces you up six spots, as was the case here for Drew Foster.

Who even knows what will happen at 184 though? Just about anybody in the top 20 can beat anyone else on any given day. Except for Myles Martin, who looks untouchable. But we digress.

149: Pat Lugo (Iowa)

From #16 to #11

Pat Lugo was due for a big win, and he got one in sudden victory over Wisconsin's Cole Martin. Early season setbacks have kept Lugo from earning a higher ranking, but he's won his last six matches and a solid performance at Big Tens (not to mention a seventh straight victory over Kaden Gfeller this Sunday) would set him up nicely for a run at his first career All-American finish in Pittsburgh.

Lugo vs. Martin starts at the 29:00 mark of the full event replay video below:

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133: Chas Tucker (Cornell)

From #14 to #11

Chas Tucker just beat Korbin Myers, who beat Micky Phillipi, who beat Daton Fix, which is just one of the many fun examples of what makes figuring out NCAA rankings such a hoot. Anyway, Tucker moves up to #11 in perhaps the most competitive weight class in the country.

Stock Is Down

285: David Jensen (Nebraska)

From #7 to #12

Heavyweight giveth and heavyweight taketh away. Jensen had surged seven places in the top 20 over the last two weeks, from #14 to #7. A loss to Chase Singletary, however, brought Jensen back down to earth. 

184: Zack Zavatsky (Virginia Tech)

From #2 to #5

The second spot at 184 has been cursed lately. Emery Parker held it for most of the season until he lost to Taylor Venz on Jan. 27. Nick Reenan held it the next two weeks before losing Nino Bonaccorsi on Feb. 10. Zavatsky was only able to hold on to the rankings for one week, as he lost last Friday to Max Dean, falling from second to fifth. 

Completing the serendipitous scheduling is Zavatsky's final regular season opponent coming up this Sunday: none other than current #2 Nick Reenan.

184: Emery Parker (Illinois)

From #5 to #9

Due to having just 15 matches against D1 opponents this season—two fewer than is necessary to qualify for an RPI—Parker had scant protection when the reshuffling of 184-pounds occurred. Wins over Cash Wilcke, Cam Caffey and Dylan Wisman are very good, but not good enough to keep that lofty #5 ranking he previously attained. 

Iowa and Oklahoma State are both #3 in the Tournament Team Rankings

We don't really have anything else to add to that, just thought it was neat how that all worked out going into the last weekend of duals, which just so happens to feature Iowa vs. Oklahoma State (which, by the way, will stream LIVE ON FLO). 

Based on the individual rankings, both teams would score 74.5 team points, without accounting for bonus points or deduction penalties, at the 2019 NCAA Championships. Pretty nifty in our humble opinions.