Where 2025-26 women's wrestling players came from
No state leads college women's wrestling: Illinois and New Jersey are effectively level at the top, and we won't rank them.
Out of 472 players counted. From official athletics roster pages, read August 4, 2026.
23 schools' 2025-26 women's wrestling rosters, 472 players. We don't say what share of all programs that is — no authoritative count of programs exists.
Not a ranking. The top states here are within 2.1 of a percentage point of each other — Illinois, New Jersey are effectively level. 10 players separate the top two, and a lead that small would need about 22 players before we'd call anyone first. So read the bars as sizes, not as places 1, 2, 3.
- Illinois66 players · 14.0%
- New Jersey56 players · 11.9%
- Pennsylvania55 players · 11.7%
- New York33 players · 7.0%
- Ohio21 players · 4.4%
- California19 players · 4.0%
- Michigan15 players · 3.2%
- Virginia13 players · 2.8%
- Utah12 players · 2.5%
- Florida11 players · 2.3%
- North Carolina10 players · 2.1%
- Texas9 players · 1.9%
- Washington7 players · 1.5%
- Missouri7 players · 1.5%
- Maryland7 players · 1.5%
- Home state unknown56 players · 11.9%
These players' roster pages didn't list a readable home town. We count them rather than hide them.
28 more places had fewer players and aren't shown.
Out of 472 players counted. From official athletics roster pages, read August 4, 2026.
Fewer than 0.8% of the women's wrestling players we read came from outside the U.S. (4 players), so there's no second chart — the numbers per country are too small to be worth ranking.
How to read this
Each bar is the number of players on a 2025-26 college women's wrestling roster whose listed home town is in that state. It is not a count of recruits, offers, or scholarships, and it says nothing about your own odds — it's simply where the players currently on rosters grew up.
We don't call a state first here. Illinois, New Jersey are within a percentage point of each other, and 10 players separate the top two — a "#1" that a handful of players would overturn isn't a fact, so we don't print one.
The unknown bar matters. 56 women's wrestling players (11.9%) are on rosters that didn't list a readable home town. We show them because a chart with no leftovers is usually a chart someone tidied up.
Source: official athletics roster pages, 2025-26 season, read August 4, 2026.