Im very tuned in to how it works for basketball/march madness, where the key criteria seems to shift every 2-3 years & frankly there are way too many metrics used by the bball committee. Is wrestling RPI rankings more of a minor resource used to validate what the bracket/seed makers are seeing? Or is it the primary criteria they use? In bball the regular season polls are essentially meaningless and actually don't translate to a team's tourny seedline much at all, is that the case here? I realize there are like 10 flippin polls but do these weekly rankings end up reflecting the seeding accurately or are they purely for fanfare? When I wrestled in high school tournament seeding was decided by all the coaches in a 30 minute meeting after weigh in's so it was often a crapshoot. Im not as aware for the tournament selection/seeding at the college level.