Wells Fargo Home Mortgage rode a series of major consolidations to leapfrog up to the top of the ranking of the largest mortgage servicers, according to a new end-of-year market analysis by Inside Mortgage Finance. After finishing 1999 as the third largest servicer with $279.60 billion, Wells Fargo pulled off a number of large servicing deals last year to help push its business to $452.57 billion as of the end of 2000 (see table). Among