I see a lot of moves from 61.5 to 72. Does anyone know if the locals on 61.5 will move to 72 also?

no
72W is conus
61.5 has spotbeams

When they were having problems on 77 a few weeks ago, they put some locals on 72. So that's why I asked.

you just answered your own question..."when 77 had problems"

77W is a conus only satellite too. SO when they had issues the best thing for Dish to do was to quickly move them to 72W. They proabbly couldnt do 61.5 due to spotbeams and capacity