2026-27 High School Wrestling Rankings
138 lbs
CJ Caines moved up with a victory over Landyn Shaffer at the Journeymen Fall Classic.
| Rank | Year | Name | School | State | College | Previous |
| 1 | SR | Gavin Mangano | Shoreham-Wading River | NY | Penn State | 1 |
| 2 | SR | Dean Anderson | Valiant Prep | AZ | Northern Iowa | 2 |
| 3 | SR | Dawson Youngblut | Don Bosco | IA | Iowa | 3 |
| 4 | SR | Israel Borge | Bixby | OK | Iowa | 4 |
| 5 | SR | Tanner Guenot | Bald Eagle Area | PA | West Virginia | 5 |
| 6 | SR | Matthew Orbeta | Poway | CA | 6 | |
| 7 | SR | Austin Ellis | Davis | UT | 9 | |
| 8 | SR | Shamus Regan | Lake Highland Prep | FL | Iowa | 10 |
| 9 | JR | Gideon Gonzalez | Bergen Catholic | NJ | 11 | |
| 10 | SR | Evan Stanley | Lowell | IN | Cornell | 12 |
| 11 | JR | Bryar Hooks | Stillwater | OK | 13 | |
| 12 | SO | Austin Schield | Gonzaga Prep | WA | 14 | |
| 13 | JR | CJ Caines | Hanover Area | PA | 20 | |
| 14 | SR | Landyn Shaffer | Hancock Central | NY | Binghamton | 16 |
| 15 | SR | Aiden Herndon | Cedar Cliff | PA | Army West Point | 17 |
| 16 | SR | Emilio Albanese | Emaus | PA | Lehigh | 18 |
| 17 | SR | Carter Chunko | Saucon Valley | PA | Rutgers | 19 |
| 18 | SO | Caleb Kosko | Nazareth | PA | NR | |
| 19 | SR | Stephen Myers | Parkersburg | WV | West Virginia | NR |
| 20 | SR | Deven Lopez | Pueblo East | CO | NR |