The top-ranked 160-pound wrestler in the southeast and Florida state champ, Levi Clemons has verbally committed to attend Tennessee at Chattanooga next fall.

Clemons, a senior at Osceola High School (Kissimmee, Fla.), is fresh from a runner-up finish at the nationally-prestigious Super 32 (Greensboro, N.C.) tournament last month.

Ranked No. 1 in the southeast by the Georgia National Wrestling Alliance (GNWA), Clemons won the Florida 3A state title last season and led Osceola to the state team championship. He was 2-2 at the 2009 UWAW Junior Freestyle Nationals.

Current Moc wrestler Niko Brown also wrestled for Osceola and won a state crown in 2008.

In the Super 32, Clemons finished second to Tristan Warner (Pa.), falling 5-1 in the freestyle competition.

He won five matches in route to the finals, including wins against Ethan Blackstock (Ga.), 11-5, Todd Gaydosh (Ohio, state qualifier), 4-3, and 19-3 against Brandon Phillips (Md.).

Five other wrestlers in the southeast have also verbally committed to the Mocs.

One North Carolina state medalist (third place), Joe DeAngelo (Southern Alamance H.S.) was a third-place medalist in North Carolina in 2009, while Tennessee state medalists are Joe Proctor (Cookeville), Trey Stavrum (Baylor), Cole Hayes (Baylor) and Cullen King (Cordova).

Proctor won a state title in 2009, Stavrum was third 135, and No. 2-ranked Hayes at 130, missed the tournament due to illness after a runner-up finish in 2008. King was fourth at at 119

The early national signing period is Nov. 11-18.