2025 NCAA Wrestling Championships Fast Facts

The 2025 NCAA Championships provided us with historic feats, upsets and dozens of notable facts and figures. Flowrestling’s Andy Hamilton and Andrew Spey took a dive into some of the compelling stats that came out of the national tournament in Philadelphia with some assistance from the Mat Talk Almanac. The multi-part series concludes with a look at the college and state stats we unearthed that we couldn’t find a home for in other articles!

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Bonus College Facts

• 37 different programs had an All-American, the most since 2014 when 38 different schools claimed an AA.
• Virginia Tech had three top-eight placers. 
  • In the ten NCAAs between 2002 and 2011, the Hokies had just three total All-Americans. Between 2012 and 2025 they’ve averaged over three-and-a-half AAs per season. 
• Michigan had multiple All-Americans for the 11th consecutive National Championship. 
• Missouri head coach Brian Smith has not gone to 12 consecutive NCAAs and come home with multiple All-Americans. 
• Lehigh notched two AAs, the fourth consecutive tournament with an AA for Mountain Hawk head coach Pat Santoro. 
  • Lehigh came home empty handed in 2021, but prior to that, the Mountain Hawks achieved an AA in every NCAA Championship between 2010 and 2019, registering 26 AAs in total over that time period. 
• Stanford’s two All-Americans marks the fifth consecutive season with a podium placer for the Cardinal, or every NCAA since the canceled 2020 tournament. 
• Purdue’s two All-Americans marks the second time coach Tony Ersland saw multiple Boilermaker AAs. The last time it occurred was in 2022. 
• Navy notched two AAs, the first time it did so since 2009. Head coach Cary Kolat coached his first Midshipmen to the podium last season. 
• Northern Colorado saw two of their student-athletes reach the All-American round in Philadelphia. That is the most during the Troy Nickerson era and just the 20th and 21st AA in program history. 
• Little Rock put two Trojans on the podium for the second consecutive tournament. The program started competing in the 2019-20 season!
• Iowa State had an All-American for the sixth consecutive tournament. That brings head coach Kevin Dresser’s total with the Cyclones to 14.
• It’s been eight NCAAs in a row where an Arizona State Sun Devil reached the podium. Head coach Zeke Jones now has 27 AAs while at the helm in Tempe, Arizona. 
• The Wisconsin Badgers have had an All-American at every NCAA Championship since 2005. 
  • Head coach Chris Bono’s tally at Wisconsin is now 11. 
• Indiana registered their first All-American since 2017 and the first of the Angel Escobedo era in Bloomington. 
• The Tim Flynn era at West Virginia now counts six All-Americans over six tournaments. 
  • The Mountaineers have had a podium placer at the last five NCAAs. 
• Jon Sioredas has now coached five All-Americans at Cal Poly.
• Terrapin head coach Alex Clemsen coached his first All-American at Maryland this season. 
• South Dakota State fans has now seen a Jackrabbit climb the podium eight times during the Damion Hahn reign that started in the 2018-19 season. 
• CSU-Bakersfield notched their first All-American since 2014. 
• The Obe Blanc era saw their first All-American in Philadelphia. 
• UPenn got an All-American for just the second time in eight tournaments. 
  • Senior CJ Composto became the first multiple-time All-American since new head coach Matt Valenti won an NCAA title in 2006 to mark his second time on the podium. 
• Utah Valley got an All-American for the first time since 2021. It was also head coach Adam Hall’s first NCAA tournament at the helm of the Wolverine program. 

Bonus State Stats

• New Jersey and Illinois tied with the most All-Americans this year with eight apiece. 
• This was the first time New Jersey and Illinois tied for the most AAs going back as far as 2000. In 2001, both Garden State and the Land of Lincoln tied Pennsylvania and Minnesota for second with seven AAs each. Ohio had eight that year. 
• Illinois also had eight All-Americans in 2023 and 2022, however, they have never had more than seven prior to 2022 going at least as far back as 2000. 
• New Jersey has had more AAs in the past as recently as 2019, when they had 10 AAs, though that was only good for second place. 
• Pennsylvania typically has more All-Americans than any other state, but this season had only six, which was good for tying Wisconsin for third. 
• Pennsylvania has never been anything but at least the second most productive state when it comes to All-Americans going back to 2000. Ironically, this historical third-place finish happened at an NCAAs held in Philadelphia. 
• More podium placers came from Pennsylvania than any other state in the six NCAAs held prior to 2025. In 2017, Ohio broke up another long streak of PA supremacy by having 10 AAs to Pennsylvania’s two. 
• There were 17 All-Americans from the Keystone State in 2021 and 2014, a high water mark for any state going back to at least 2000. 
• In 2021, Pennsylvania had 10 more AAs than the next most productive state, which was Illinois with seven placers. 
• Wisconsin, who had no All-Americans between 2017 and 2019, had at least three All-Americans for the fifth year in a row. 
• America’s Dairyland produced just five All-Americans from 2012 through 2018. From 2021 to 2025, Wisconsin produced 22 All-Americans (and untold amounts of cheese). 
• Six is the most Wisconsin All-Americans since at least 2000. The previous high water mark for which we have records was five Wisconsin AAs in 2007. 
• 2025 was tied with 2017 as the second-most geographically diverse NCAAs, with 31 different states (or countries) being represented on the medal stand in Philadelphia, a number also reached in 2017. 
  • The most geographically diverse NCAA was 2024, when 32 states or counties reached All-American status. 
• Lachlan McNeil was the only international wrestler to make the podium. The Tar Heel three-time All-American is from Canada. 
• Minnesota produced five All-Americans, the most from the Land of 10,000 Lakes since 2001, when they had seven. 
• Minnesota is now on a 17 tournament streak of producing at least two All-Americans. 
• Five Iowans climbed the podium steps in Philadelphia, the most since 2017 when they also scored five AAs. 
  • Iowa notched four AAs the previous two NCAA tournaments, marking a mini renaissance after only registering one All-American in both 2021 and 2022. 
• States that have had at least one All-American since 2000 include PA, NJ, IL, MN, IA, OK, CA and OH. 
• Georgia continues their push to become a power state. The Peachtree State had three All-Americans, the most since at least 2000. 
  • Georgia has had multiple All-Americans in the last three NCAAs. Since the year 2000 the only other time there have been multiple Georgians wrestling on Saturday of NCAAs was 2002. 
  • From 2006 to 2011, Georgia produced zero NCAA All-Americans. All three Georgia AAs from 2025 have at least one more year of eligibility. Big things are happening in Georgia!
• Ohio is in the midst of a relatively fallow period. Four All-Americans is nothing to sneeze at, the Buckeye State produced seven AAs last season, but they are still down from a recent stretch from 2013 to 2018 where they averaged just over 10 AAs a year over that six year stretch. 
  • Ohio had more AAs than any other state as recently as 2017, when they produced a nation-leading 10 All-Americans. 
• Oklahoma also produced four All-Americans, tied for seventh place among states. 
  • That was the most Oklahoman AAs since 2018 when there were five. It also marks the ninth consecutive tournament with double digit Oklahoma AAs. 
• Michigan is also tied for seventh place in 2025 with four All-Americans.
  • That makes 20 tournaments in a row for the Mitten State where it produced multiple All-Americans. 
  • Two of those All-Americans wrestled for Oklahoma State, Caleb Fish and Cam Amine, both of whom were wrestling for Michigan schools last season (Michigan State and Michigan, respectively). 
• Rounding out the top 10 with three All-Americans is Indiana, which tied the aforementioned Georgia for tenth place in the nation. 
• Utah had more than one All-American for the first time since 2013.
• Nebraska has two AAs for the first time since 2009. The Nebraska Cornhuskers had one of those native Nebraskans (Antrell Taylor) and one of the native Utes (Brock Hardy). 
  • In fact, all eight of the 2025 Husker All-Americans hail from different states (FL, ID, IN, NC, NE, OH, PA & UT). 
• Illinois and New Jersey both had eight AAs but only one wrestler from each state represented a school from their home state (Trvor Chumbley for Northwestern (IL) and Sammy Alvarez for Rider (NJ)). 
• Owen Trephan became South Carolina’s first podium placer since 2017 when he finished fifth for Lehigh. The last AA from the Palmetto state before Trephan was TJ Dudley, who placed third for Nebraska in 2017. 
• Texas had their first All-American since 2021 when AJ Ferrari placed third for CSU-Bakersfield. The last AA for Texas was AJ Ferrari placing first for Oklahoma State.
• Virginia Tech’s Connor McGonagle was the first All-American from New Hampshire since Eric Bradley placed 8th for Penn State in 2006 at 184lbs. 
• No AAs for Connecticut, Maine, Rhode Island or Vermont, but New England did get a second top-eight placer when Tyler Knox placed fourth at 133, the same weight as fellow New Englander McGonagle. 
• Just once All-American for California, Zeth Romney’s fourth place at 133 for Cal Poly. The Bear Flag Republic has produced multiple AAs at every other tournament since at least 2000. 
• Jacob Little was the lone AA from Kentucky for the second year in a row. Kyle Ruschell in 2010 was the last Kentuckian AA before Little.
• Jacob Frost joins his twin brother Evan Frost as a rare Louisiana All-American. Evan earned AA honors last season for Iowa State, where Jacon also attends. 
  • The last AA from the Bayou state before either Frost brother was David Bonin in 2013, who placed fourth for Northern Iowa. 
• But what about champs? Wisconsin and Illinois both had two champs: Mitchell Mesenbrink and Stephen Buchanan for Wisconsin at 165 and 197 and Vincent Robinson and DJ Hamiti for Illinois at 123 and 174. 
• There was one champ from Ohio (Lucas Byrd at 133), Indiana (Jesse Mendez at 141), Idaho (Ridge Lovett at 149), Nebraska (Antrell Taylor at 157), Pennsylvania (Carter Starocci at 184), and Kansas (Wyatt Hendrickson at 285). 
  • Pennsylvania has now had at least one champ at every tournament since 2016.