BST: Flowrestling is one of the few publications that already has their rankings out for this season, so I'll go off that for the matter of Conference/National outlook. Mayes is ranked 3rd nationally at 141, which I think is a respectable spot. Maybe 1 higher than he should be, but nothing I'm going to argue with. He has company from 2 conference mates in the top 20, Mecate (Old Dominion) at 5th and Horan (Cent. Michigan) at 12th. Mayes split with Mecate last year, dropping their 2nd match at the conference tourney.
That might have been Mayes' single worst matches I've seen him wrestle.