Men’s college wrestling
A Division I program’s own website is where it wants fans, recruits and parents to come, and season stats are one of the things that bring them back. We looked at all 78 Division I men’s programs’ sites for their 2025-26 numbers. Nearly two thirds had a complete set. The rest had partial stats or none on their own site.
That isn’t a knock on anyone. Season stats are hard to keep up to date, and the numbers show it.
What we saw
- 48 of 78 programs (62%) published full 2025-26 season stats, covering every event through the team’s last one.
- 10 (13%) published partial stats, most often stopping before the conference or NCAA Championships.
- 20 (26%) had no 2025-26 season stats on their official site that we could find.
- 11 (14%) reported moves for each wrestler: takedowns, escapes, reversals, near falls or riding time. Most stats cover win-loss records and bonus-point wins.
Why it’s hard
Reliable, accurate statistics take two jobs. The first is keeping score of every match: every dual and every tournament bout, all season, scored the same way. It is hard work that takes discipline. The second is compiling the numbers, turning a season of bouts into records, bonus-point wins and move counts for every wrestler. That takes time, and it comes due at the busiest point of the season.
Paper does the work without the payoff
Score on paper and you do all of the first job and get no help with the second. Every bout sheet still has to be read, added up and typed in by hand before a single season stat exists. Paper scorebooks are 20th-century technology. There are better options in this century.
Digital scoring does both jobs
Scoring digitally is easier than scoring on paper. In Takedown, the scorer taps each takedown, escape, reversal and near fall as it happens on an iPad at the mat, and the app keeps the clocks and the score.
The payoff is the second job, done for you. Every match scored is already counted, so season-to-date statistics are a button press away: records, falls, tech falls, majors and move counts for every wrestler, in reports such as Scoring Details and the Leaderboard, ready to share as a PDF or post to the team’s website. They are current the moment the last match ends, at the start of the season and at the NCAAs alike.
Keeping score takes discipline either way. Only one of the two ways turns that discipline into season stats.
How we counted
We checked each school’s official athletics site on November 8, 2026. Full means 2025-26 stats for each wrestler through the team’s last event.
- Start here: Scoring Details and the Leaderboard
- Learn more: every Takedown report, and our college wrestling schedule tracker