**Please note that this is the opinion of Joe Mauceri. More opinions from other TopDrawerSoccer.com writers will be released as the draft nears. **

After watching 120 live college soccer games this year, supplemented by another 63 games on tape, composed of 151 different college teams, here is my Final 2012 MLS Draft Ranking.

This version includes Generation Adidas players that have signed, international players that have been reported to be attending the combine, and all seniors.

Joe's 2012 Mock Draft 

Joe's 2012 Draft Rankings: Goalkeepers | Forwards | Defenders 

Players that I haven't seen are generally ranked lower than players that I have seen. I'm from the East coast - so it's easier for me to see teams in the East. However, I've seen UC Irvine, UC Davis, UC Riverside, Creighton, SMU, Bradley, UCSB (3 times), Denver, New Mexico (twice), California, Bakersfield, San Jose State, Stanford, San Diego State, Washington (twice), UCLA (twice) and Drake live. I was unable to see some teams live, I've only seen on tape (e.g., Michigan State, Ohio State, UAB, Hofstra, Iona). I've reviewed a lot of tape (including the South American U20 qualification tournament. The combine will supplement my prior observations and fill the gaps where needed. I've seen every domestic combine college play live with the vast majority in 2011 and a handful in 2010.

My rankings take into account the values of Generation Adidas, international status and general assessment of the skill and how each player might fit into a MLS team.  Given the 3 expansion teams in the past 2 years and the roster increase, I've made slight grade inflation and I'm considering the players with a grade of C+ have increased chances of making a roster and some of the players with higher C rankings may be able to stick, as well.

In addition to ranking each player sequentially, I'm assigning a letter grade using the following scale:

A=Can't miss prospect. Should easily make the roster and may get time with the first team in 2012. By the end of the year, could be an impact player.

B=Likely to make the team. Could make roster, may take a year or more to get to the first team.

C=Probably not going to make the team. Has significant barriers to overcome. A very select few may eventually make it, but it would need to be a perfect storm (multiple injuries, playing out of their heads, fortuitous bounces, etc.).

D=Extremely unlikely to make a team.

F=No shot.

Within each grade, I've ranked each player.

#	Pos	Grade	Name	College	Combine?
1	MF	A-	Nick Deleon	Louisville	Signed-Combine
2	MF	B+	Luis Silva	UCSB	Signed-Combine
3	MF	B+	Kelyn Rowe	UCLA	GA-Combine
4	MF	B	Enzo Martinez	UNC	GA-Combine
5	MF	B	Calum Mallace	Marquette	Combine
6	MF	B	Andy Rose	UCLA	Combine
7	MF	B	Kohei Yamada		Intl-Combine
8	MF	B-	Tony Cascio	Connecticut	Signed-Combine
9	MF	B-	Sam Garza	UCSB	GA-Combine
10	MF	B-	Kirk Urso	UNC	Combine
11	MF	C+	Miguel Ibarra	UC Irvine	Combine
12	MF	C+	Greg Jordan	Creighton	Combine
13	MF	C+	Kenneth Walker	Louisville	Combine
14	MF	C+	Luke Holmes	Akron	Combine
15	MF	C	Aldo Paniagua		Intl-Combine
16	MF	C	Jacob Hustedt	Washington
17	MF	C	Jason Banton		Intl-Combine
18	MF	C	Kevan George	UCF	Combine
19	MF	C	Matt Kuhn	Drake
20	MF	C-	Arthur Ivo	SMU	Combine
21	MF	C-	Terry Gibbs	Bloomfield
22	MF	C-	Michael Rose	Notre Dame
23	MF	C-	Rafael Garcia	Cal State Northridge	Combine
24	MF	C-	Christian Barreiro	Penn	Combine
25	MF	C-	Evans Frimpong	Delaware	Combine
26	MF	C-	Mario Vila Boa	Bethel
27	MF	C-	Ryan Burham	Northeastern
28	MF	C-	Jimmy Turner	UC Irvine
29	MF	C-	Ryan Gracia	George Mason
30	MF	C-	Ryan Robinson	Hastings
31	MF	C-	Evan James	Charlotte	Combine
32	MF	C-	Casey McCool	Washington
33	MF	C-	Brendan King	Notre Dame	Combine
34	MF	C-	Lance Rozeboom	New Mexico	Combine
35	MF	C-	Michael Green	New Mexico	Combine
36	MF	C-	Emilano Bonfigli		Intl-Combine
37	MF	D+	Pablo Punyed	St John's
38	MF	D+	Tony Walls	UWGB	Combine
39	MF	D+	Kaoru Forbess	Maryland
40	MF	D+	Jarod Stigall	Denver
41	MF	D+	Nate Polak	Hastings
42	MF	D+	Garrett Gunther	Stanford
43	MF	D+	Daniel Fabian	Providence
44	MF	D+	Eder Arreola	UCLA	Combine
45	MF	D+	Rob Medarios	Brown
46	MF	D+	Christian Hernandez	UC Irvine
47	MF	D+	Michael Balogun	Akron
48	MF	D+	Luke Joyner	Bucknell
49	MF	D+	Justin Grider	St Mary's
50	MF	D+	Nicholas Abrigo	William & Mary
51	MF	D+	Gonzalo de Mujica	Stetson
52	MF	D+	Ryan Sappington	Bucknell
53	MF	D	Walter Hines	St John's
54	MF	D	Stephen Knox	Boston University
55	MF	D	Phillip Aseweh	Liberty
56	MF	D	Christopher Tweed-Kent	Duke
57	MF	D	Joey Madigan	Fort Lewis
58	MF	D	Brandon Zimmerman	Santa Clara
59	MF	D	Stephen Morrissey	South Carolina
60	MF	D	Logan McDaniel	Loyola-Marymount
61	MF	D	Charles Schwartz	Drake
62	MF	D	Cristian Raudales	FGCU
63	MF	D	Chris Sutton	Notre Dame
64	MF	D	Luigi Clendening	Georgia Southern
65	MF	D	Cyrus Sadee	Michigan State
66	MF	D	Drew McKinney	UNC
67	MF	D	Predrag Ivanovic	Jacksonville
68	MF	D	Daniel Roberts	UNCW
69	MF	D	Giovanni Zammiello	Seton Hall
70	MF	D	Francois Anderson	Columbia
71	MF	D	Harry Newman	St Peter's
72	MF	D	Winston Henderson	Oakland
73	MF	D	Justin Davies	San Diego State
74	MF	D	Jimmy Simpson	James Madison
75	MF	D	Yannick Lewis	Vermont
76	MF	D	Brian Gwanzura	Radford
77	MF	D-	Krystian Witkowski	Marist
78	MF	D-	Joel Theissen	Rio Grande
79	MF	D-	Max Hamilton	Monmouth
80	MF	D-	Mike Mazzullo	Columbia
81	MF	D-	John Niyonsaba	Fordham
82	MF	D-	Nick Millington	Elon
83	MF	D-	Mariano Leo	Western Illinois
84	MF	D-	Felipe Libreros	UVA
85	MF	D-	Bryant Knibbs	Rutgers
86	MF	D-	Josey Portillo	FGCU
87	MF	D-	Richie Menjivar	CS-Bakersfield
88	MF	D-	Oscar Aguero	Cal State Fullerton
89	MF	D-	Andrew Bulls	UMBC
90	MF	D-	Julian Godinez	St Mary's
91	MF	D-	Juan Nino	Liberty
92	MF	D-	Evan Richter	Cal Poly
93	MF	D-	Colin Helmich	IPFW
94	MF	D-	Brian Eddy	Wofford
95	MF	D-	Yoni Berhanu	George Washington
96	MF	D-	Neal Melchionni	Lehigh
97	MF	D-	Brad Hilton	New Hampshire
98	MF	D-	Ryan Brode	Pittsburgh
99	MF	F+	Mike Kennedy	Northeastern
100	MF	F+	Adam Bettencourt	Sacramento St
101	MF	F+	Nick Roydhouse	Syracuse
102	MF	F+	Tim Richardson	Fordham
103	MF	F+	Jack Twellman	SIUE
104	MF	F+	Christian Meza	Bradley
105	MF	F+	Agustin Cazarez	St Mary's
106	MF	F+	Nate Bourdreau	Rutgers
107	MF	F+	Andy Tiedt	Buffalo
108	MF	F+	Adam Shaw	Michigan
109	MF	F+	Ian Hendrie	Mount St Mary's
110	MF	F+	Alexis Dominquez	Western Illinois
111	MF	F+	Manuel Conde	Cleveland St
112	MF	F+	Ayokunle Lumpkin	Georgia State
113	MF	F+	Mike Reese	Colgate
114	MF	F+	Keegan Priest	Clemson
115	MF	F+	Brian Cothern	Wright State
116	MF	F+	Corey Albertson	Tulsa
117	MF	F+	Patrick Boucher	Hartford
118	MF	F+	Matthew Tellez	Sacramento St
119	MF	F+	Taylor Gorman	Brown
120	MF	F+	Ken Taylor	CS-Bakersfield
121	MF	F	Pedro Adan	San Diego State
122	MF	F	Jimmy Lannon	Cornell
123	MF	F	Steve Jakubowski	Long Island
124	MF	F	Paul Tracy	UIC
125	MF	F	Stuart Grable	UWGB
126	MF	F	Payton Hickey	SMU
127	MF	F	Keith Mach	Bradley
128	MF	F	Murphy Campbell	Santa Clara
129	MF	F	Ryan Walter	Binghamton
130	MF	F	Tad Kreamalmeyer	Evansville
131	MF	F	Darko Karamatic	Jacksonville
132	MF	F	Matt Bahner	Cincinnati
133	MF	F	Chase Blasé	San Diego
134	MF	F	Joe Losier	Vermont
135	MF	F	Anthony Payne	Radford
136	MF	F	Lindon Qafleshi	IPFW
137	MF	F	Robert Refai	Milwaukee
138	MF	F	Matt Kirby	Denver