Three Girls Enter Bedrock’s Updated Pound-For-Pound Wrestling Rankings

Let’s start this update to the Bedrock Sports Hawaii pound-for-pound girls wrestling rankings with these two caveats:

>> 1. Nobody will really know who the top wrestlers are in 2022 until after the state tournament. So this list is just a gauge of strength at this time, based on past credentials, this season’s results and some input from coaches.

If you are a wrestler and are not on this list and deserve to be on it, you may eventually make it on by continuing to do your job.

>> 2. Placement on this list doesn’t mean a hill of beans compared to what wrestlers do on the mat. But it can add more interest and intrigue to the season.

Moanalua’s Isabelle Asuncion (left), pictured wrestling at a mainland tournament, is one of three newcomers to the Bedrock Sports Hawaii Top 10 pound-for-pound rankings.

Moanalua’s Asuncion checks in at No. 9.

Soon after these boys and girls p4p updates (the first since the original rankings from Jan. 17) are posted today, Bedrock Sports Hawaii will email all coaches in the five leagues, calling on them to be ready to give their input (if they want) toward the next rankings that are expected to be either just before or just after the upcoming championships of the give leagues.

And for that next update and beyond, we will continue to strive to have the truest possible picture of who belongs where in the rankings.

In today’s updated rankings, three girls who have suffered losses — Mililani’s Jacinta Fonoti, Kamehameha’s Nohea Moniz and Kapolei’s Kaui Lee-Tynan — have dropped out of the Top 10.

Three others who have continued their winning ways all season are new to the Top 10 — Lahainaluna’s Kayce Dudoit, Moanalua’s Isabelle Asuncion and Roosevelt’s Caelin Balansag.

Baldwin’s Liana Ferreira, a two-time state placer who recently went on a college tour of Southern Oregon University and has not yet officially competed in the MIL this season, plans to he on the mat this weekend at a round-robin tournament at King Kekaulike, according to Bears coach Malakai Panuve.

The updated girls p4p rankings are below.

BEDROCK SPORTS HAWAII’S GIRLS WRESTLING TOP 10 POUND-FOR-POUND RANKINGS
Updated: Feb. 9
(Approximate or likely weight class in bold, followed by movement — plus or minus — since the last Top 10 from Jan. 17)

>> 1. Erin Hikiji, senior (Mililani) 2020 97 state champ, 2019 97 state fourth place — 102 (even)
>> 2. Haley Narahara, senior (Kamehameha) 2020 112 state champ, 2019 112 state third place — 122 (even)
>> 3. Alicia Frank, senior (Lahainaluna) 2020 117 state runner-up, 2019 117 state fifth place — 127 (plus-1)
>> 4. Kaceylee Pua, senior (Baldwin) 2020 155 state runner-up — 155 (plus-1)
>> 5. Liana Ferreira, senior (Baldwin) 2020 97 state runner-up, 2019 97 state third place — 102 (minus-2)
>> 6. Rachel Oshita, senior (Moanalua) 2020 132 state third place — 132 (plus-2)
>> 7. Lilliane Toledo, senior (Hilo), 2020 184 state fourth place — 225 (plus-2)
>> 8. Kayce Dudoit, sophomore (Lahainaluna) — 107 (new to Top 10)
>> 9. Isabelle Asuncion, junior (Moanalua) 2020 102 state third place — 112 (new to Top 10)
>> 10. Caelin Balansag, junior (Roosevelt) — 122 (new to Top 10)

DROPPED OUT OF TOP 10
>> Jacinta Fonoti, senior (Mililani) 2020 184 state third place, 2019 184 state fourth place — 225 (previously No. 6)
>> Nohea Moniz, senior (Kamehameha) 2020 107 state third place, 2019 107 state fourth place — 112 (previously No. 7)
>> Kaui Lee-Tynan, sophomore (Kapolei) — 145 (previously No. 10)

TRENDING UP:
>> Lainey Eckart, junior (Kamehameha-Hawaii) 2020 127 state fourth place — 138
>> Aliya Takano, senior (Kamehameha) 2020 117 state fourth place —117
>> Leina Balancio-Sadamaru, senior (Waianae) — 184
>> Angelina Daoang, sophomore (Punahou) — 107
>> Zysha Pavao, junior (Keaau) 2020 132 state fourth place — 127
>> Kivah Caballero, junior (Lahainaluna) 2020 112 state fifth place — 127
>> Atinaeleila Fonoti, senior (Mililani) 2020 225 state fifth place — 225
>> Tristan Nitta, junior (Mililani) — 107
>> Jax Realin, freshman (Kamehameha) — 127
>> Anissa Wright, senior (Campbell) 2020 145 state runner-up — 145

ALSO ON THE RADAR:
>> Naiomi Kulukulualani-Sales, junior (Lahainaluna) 2020 97 state fourth place — 107
>> Victoriana Kim, senior (Mililani) 2020 107 state fourth place — 117
>> Kianna Chargualaf, senior (Campbell) 2020 138 state third place — 138
>> Madison Kalamau (Moanalua) 2020 97 state sixth place — 107
>> Lillie Awaya, senior (‘Iolani) — 112
>> Aubrie Molina, sophomore (Pearl City) — 155
>> Tayden Uyemura, freshman (Pearl City) — 127
>> Jahlia Miguel, freshman (Baldwin) — 145

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