165 pounds

Division III, 2025–26, ranked by Elo rating. Wrestlers need at least six rated bouts to be ranked; 233 qualify.

Top 50

Conference

				Last 5
1	Keegan Demarest NCAA 3rd Messiah	52–2	7–2	LWWWW	88%	1997
2	Tanner Gerber NCAA 1st Wisconsin-La Crosse	28–2	10–2	WWWWW	82%	1933
3	Andrew Supers NCAA 2nd Baldwin Wallace	29–3	4–3	WWWLW	83%	1901
4	Clayton McDonough NCAA 6th Luther	22–3	7–3	LWWLL	77%	1858
5	Bo Koedam NCAA 7th Coe	22–6	8–6	WWLWL	59%	1806
6	Jack Richardson NCAA 5th Johnson & Wales	19–4	3–2	WLWWL	68%	1805
7	Brayden Peet NCAA 4th Wisconsin-Whitewater	24–8	6–7	WWLWL	46%	1779
8	Ryley Monica Oneonta	27–5	1–1	WWWLL	78%	1778
9	Cooper Willis Augsburg	16–5	7–4	WWLLW	69%	1770
10	Brian Petry Cornell College	25–8	3–7	WWLWL	60%	1761
11	Carter Davis Penn College	23–6	2–3	WWLWL	65%	1756
12	Kaiden Wagner Lycoming	14–3	3–1	WWWLL	86%	1756
13	Ryland Schneider Wisconsin-La Crosse	15–1	1–1	LWWWW	73%	1751
14	Tallion Elliott Marymount	19–3	0–2	WWWWW	58%	1739
15	Nicholas DeLorenzo Eastern	18–6	1–1	WWWLW	72%	1736
16	Chris Reddy Ithaca	24–7	0–2	LWWWL	67%	1729
17	Ethan Composto Gettysburg	19–6	0–4	WWWLL	74%	1719
18	Kale Roth Dubuque	24–5	0–5	LWLWW	50%	1715
19	Aiden Brosinski Wartburg	19–7	2–5	LWWLW	68%	1712
20	Peyton Brooks Albion	13–6	0–5	WWLWL	77%	1705
21	Justice Hockenberry-Folk Elizabethtown	12–6	1–6	LWLWL	75%	1703
22	Cade Parent Roanoke	14–8	3–7	WWLWL	64%	1699
23	Colton Loween Augsburg	9–4	0–3	WWLWW	89%	1699
24	Jashon Holmes Castleton	18–4	2–3	WLWLL	44%	1697
25	Noah Danforth Washington and Lee	11–2	0–1	WWLWW	64%	1686
26	Carter Martinson Wartburg	13–5	0–2	WWWWW	69%	1684
27	Cooper McCloy Wabash	16–7	0–5	WLWWL	69%	1675
28	Jonathon Harvey Wisconsin-Eau Claire	13–5	0–4	WLWWL	62%	1674
29	Luke Moore Delaware Valley	34–14	1–8	LWWLL	76%	1669
30	Syler Zdanczewicz Wartburg	17–7	0–3	WWWWL	82%	1660
31	Connor Powell Johns Hopkins	16–8	0–2	WWLWL	75%	1652
32	Xavier Swanson Averett	16–6	2–2	LWWLL	94%	1651
33	Evan Haferkorn Lakeland	23–9	–	WLWWL	65%	1650
34	Ben Hegler Ohio Northern	19–7	1–3	WWWLL	58%	1649
35	Cole Pfeufer Kean	9–4	0–1	WWWWL	78%	1644
36	Michael Roberts Westminster (MO)	12–8	0–5	WLWLW	92%	1643
37	Mason Savitz Penn State Behrend	12–5	1–2	WWLWL	75%	1641
38	Trevor Sheehan St. John Fisher	17–5	0–3	WWLLL	47%	1640
39	Cannon Long Shenandoah	7–2	–	WWLWW	100%	1640
40	Steven Enamorado-Ortiz York (PA)	8–3	–	WWLLW	75%	1638
41	Aiden Stecker Mount Union	14–7	0–1	WLWLW	36%	1635
42	Matt Gish Roger Williams	8–1	–	WWWWW	38%	1630
43	Kyle Lee Roanoke	7–3	0–2	WWWWW	57%	1630
44	Christian Paredes Cortland	12–5	–	WLWWW	75%	1627
45	Mason Grodzki RIT	10–6	0–5	LWWLL	80%	1627
46	Jordan Ayyash TCNJ	11–7	1–5	LWWLL	55%	1623
47	Max Morrison Brockport	10–6	0–2	LLLWL	80%	1622
48	Devin Sweeney Washington and Lee	12–5	0–2	WWLWL	75%	1621
49	Chase Anestis Plymouth State	6–4	0–1	WWWLW	50%	1620
50	Fisher Stites Williams	5–3	0–1	WWLLW	100%	1620

Click a column heading to sort. Bonus is the share of wins by fall, tech fall or major decision. Vs top 20 counts matches against wrestlers currently ranked in the top 20 at any weight.

Upsets at 165

17%Jonathan Neypes beat Logan Williamson

Fall 2:12, Dec 6. RIT Invitational

17%Scott Graves beat Syler Zdanczewicz

Dec 17-13, Feb 8. UD Brown-Terrell Invite

19%Landon Gray beat Kingston Strouse

Dec 11-8, Jan 10. Johnson & Wales vs Oneonta

20%Hunter Cleaver beat Trevor Sheehan

Fall 4:47, Feb 27. NCAA Division III Mideast Regional

20%Braylon Griffiths beat Xavier Swanson

Dec 6-3, Dec 20. Averett vs Loras

21%Hunter Cleaver beat Luke Moore

Dec 3-2, Feb 6. Centenary vs Delaware Valley

How the rankings work

Pick a system here or from the menu at the top of every page.

Elo rating

The chess system. Everyone starts at 1500. After each bout the winner takes points from the loser: more for an upset, and more for a fall (×1.75), tech fall (×1.5) or major decision (×1.25). New wrestlers move faster for their first eight bouts.

A 200-point gap means the higher-rated wrestler wins about 76% of the time.

In use now

Glicko-2

A newer cousin of Elo that also tracks how sure it is about each wrestler. It counts wins and losses only, not margin, and updates week by week.

The ± number is that uncertainty: a wrestler with few bouts or a long layoff has a wide range and moves more after his next match.

RPI

The formula college sports used for years: 25% your win percentage, 50% your opponents’ win percentage, 25% their opponents’.

It rewards a tough schedule, not how you won. Shown as a decimal, so .650 beats .600.

Win percentage

Plain winning percentage, with a minimum of ten bouts.

Simple, but it ignores who you beat.

Every division is rated on its own, and forfeits never count. To be ranked a wrestler needs six rated bouts (ten for win percentage). Team strength, on the Teams page, is the average rating of each team’s best wrestler at all ten weights. Ratings start fresh each season.