149 - Shayne Van Ness
JD Rader's prediction of how the 149 lb weight class will look at the end of the year.
| RANK | GRADE | NAME | SCHOOL | PREVIOUS |
| 1 | JR | Shayne Van Ness | Penn State | 2 |
| 2 | SR | Lachlan McNeil | Michigan | 3 |
| 3 | SO | Ethan Stiles | Ohio State | 4 |
| 4 | JR | Casey Swiderski | Oklahoma State | 5 |
| 5 | FR | Aden Valencia | Stanford | 4 (141) |
| 6 | JR | Paniro Johnson | Iowa State | R16 (157) |
| 7 | JR | Gavin Drexler | ND State | R12 |
| 8 | SO | Koy Buesgens | NC State | R16 |
| R12 | JR | Jack Gioffre | Oklahoma | R12 |
| R12 | SO | Cross Wasilewski | Penn | R12 |
| R12 | SR | Chance Lamer | Nebraska | R12 |
| R12 | FR | Jaxon Joy | Cornell | R16 |
| R16 | JR | Ty Whalen | Princeton | R16 |
| R16 | JR | Finn Solomon | Pittsburgh | R16 |
| R16 | SR | Caleb Rathjen | UNI | NR |
| R16 | SR | Andrew Clark | Rutgers | NR |