By The Numbers: The 2025 NCAA Wrestling Championships
By The Numbers: The 2025 NCAA Wrestling Championships
Breaking down the 2025 NCAAs with numbers and graphs and maps and positive vibes!
The math checks out: three days plus 10 weights plus 330 competitors equals the greatest weekend of the year!
Previous NCAAs By The Numbers: 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014
And now, with the 2025 edition of the NCAA D1 Wrestling Championships in the books, it's time to dive into the numbers! More information about all the Philadelphia qualifiers can be found here.
All-Americans Per Conference
Champs Per Conference
Placement & Advancement Points Per Conference
As the great Shane Sparks would say, the Big Ten is the nation's premiere wrestling conference, and it's got the numbers to back it up!
All-Americans Per Home State
Champs Per Home State
Advancement & Placement Points Per Home State
A rare year in which Pennsylvania did not have the most All-Americans or advancement & placement points. I don't think it's a sign of trouble for the Keystone state but rather an indication of the growth in other states.
For instance, Wisconsin is continuing it's recent trend with another strong performance, including two champs (Mitchell Mesenbrink and Stpehen Buchanan).
Raw numbers are great, but what about the added context of adjusting the numbers per capita? Great idea, let's see them.
All-Americans Per Home State Per Million Inhabitants
Advancement & Placement Points Per Home State Per Million Inhabitants
Per capita is truly Iowa's time to shine. Nebraska also showing out on a population adjusted basis. Corn country = wrestling country.
Top 10 Wrestlers Who Out-Placed Their Seeds
| WT | NAME | SCHOOL | SEED | PLACE |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 157 | Trevor Chumbley | Northwestern | 20 | 4 |
| 184 | Donnell Washington | Indiana | 22 | 8 |
| 149 | Gavin Drexler | North Dakota State | 22 | 8 |
| 197 | Camden McDanel | Nebraska | 20 | 8 |
| 133 | Zan Fugitt | Wisconsin | 14 | 4 |
| 133 | Jacob Van Dee | Nebraska | 17 | 7 |
| 197 | Joseph Novak | Wyoming | 15 | 5 |
| 149 | Dylan D'Emilio | Ohio State | 13 | 4 |
| 165 | Christopher Minto | Nebraska | 12 | 4 |
| 174 | Cade DeVos | South Dakota State | 13 | 6 |
| 174 | Matthew Singleton | NC State | 14 | 7 |
| 174 | Patrick Kennedy | Iowa | 11 | 4 |
Top 10 Wrestlers Who Out-Placed Their Rankings
| WT | NAME | SCHOOL | RANK | PLACE |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 184 | Donnell Washington | Indiana | 32 | 8 |
| 149 | Gavin Drexler | North Dakota State | 28 | 8 |
| 157 | Trevor Chumbley | Northwestern | 20 | 4 |
| 165 | Christopher Minto | Nebraska | 17 | 4 |
| 133 | Zan Fugitt | Wisconsin | 16 | 4 |
| 141 | CJ Composto | Pennsylvania | 15 | 4 |
| 157 | Matty Bianchi | Little Rock | 18 | 7 |
| 197 | Camden McDanel | Nebraska | 18 | 8 |
| 125 | Sheldon Seymour | Lehigh | 14 | 6 |
| 133 | Jacob Van Dee | Nebraska | 15 | 7 |
| 157 | Caleb Fish | Oklahoma State | 16 | 8 |
| 174 | Cade DeVos | South Dakota State | 14 | 6 |
| 174 | Matthew Singleton | NC State | 15 | 7 |
| 197 | Joseph Novak | Wyoming | 13 | 5 |
DJ Washington, Gavin Drexler, and Trevor Chumbley proving that seeds don't matter, they are they bad draw.
Placement x Seed Matrix
| PLACE -> | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 12 | 16 | 24 | 32 | 33 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 1 | |||||||||
| 2 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| 3 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | |||||
| 5 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | |||||||||
| 6 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | |||||||
| 7 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 1 | |||||||
| 8 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| 9 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | |||||||
| 10 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2 | ||||||||
| 11 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | ||||||||
| 12 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | ||||||
| 13 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | |||||||
| 14 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | |||||||
| 15 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 4 | |||||||||
| 16 | 5 | 4 | 1 | ||||||||||
| 17 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 2 | |||||||||
| 18 | 5 | 4 | 1 | ||||||||||
| 19 | 5 | 4 | 1 | ||||||||||
| 20 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 3 | |||||||||
| 21 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 1 | |||||||||
| 22 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||||||
| 23 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 2 | |||||||||
| 24 | 2 | 2 | 6 | ||||||||||
| 25 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 2 | |||||||||
| 26 | 1 | 3 | 6 | ||||||||||
| 27 | 3 | 7 | |||||||||||
| 28 | 1 | 2 | 7 | ||||||||||
| 29 | 1 | 5 | 4 | ||||||||||
| 30 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 3 | |||||||||
| 31 | 1 | 9 | |||||||||||
| 32 | 1 | 6 | 3 | ||||||||||
| 33 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 |
More evidence that this one one of the wildest tournaments in recent memory.
Now how about some maps!
Map of All Round of 16ers, Bloodrounders and All-Americans
Heat Map of All Round of 16ers, Bloodrounders and All-Americans
Can't have a By the Numbers article without a heat map! I would have included round of 24 finishers but the free version of Mapline got stingier with regards to the number of locations they let you map for free.
That's all for 2025, see everyone next March in Cleveland!