Fargo 2025: Every Returning 16U Girls All-American Still Competing This Season

The 16U Girls division at Fargo has become one of the fastest-growing brackets in American wrestling, and the 2025 tournament proved it. Across 16 weight classes, 50 returning All-Americans are back competing this season, and their collective body of work — over 1,200 combined matches — shows a division that is not just expanding in numbers but deepening in talent. The days when a single dominant wrestler could sleepwalk through a 16U girls bracket are over.

The headline number this season belongs to Kaili Manuel of Michigan, the 170-pound champion who carries a staggering 2610 Glicko-2 rating on a 6-0 record. That rating is the highest among all returning All-Americans, boys or girls. Close behind is Eve Skrocki of Iowa (145 lbs champion, 2498 rating, 16-1 record), and the 120-pound weight class boasts the deepest returning talent: Remington Zimmerer of Colorado has climbed to a 2476 rating from her third-place finish, overtaking champion Daelin Cody (2404) and runner-up Elle Changaris (2353). All four returners at 120 are rated above 2158.

Volume tells a story too. Temperance Lowe of Missouri (125 lbs runner-up) leads all returning girls with 72 wins this season on a 72-15 record. Daelin Cody and Remington Zimmerer have both crossed 65 wins. Aileen Paniagua of Oregon (100 lbs 4th place) has wrestled 66 matches with a 61-5 record, and Aya Yoshitake of California (110 lbs runner-up) has logged 69 total bouts. These wrestlers are not resting on their Fargo placements — they are actively seeking competition, and their high match counts mean their Glicko-2 ratings carry strong confidence intervals.

Several weight classes will produce dramatic rematches in 2026. At 105, defending champion Grace Jawulski of Florida (2301) has Ella Neibert of Indiana (2293) breathing down her neck from the fourth-place position. At 110, Ali Svancara of Idaho (champion, 2379) leads a loaded bracket where even fourth-placer Irini Poka carries a 2275. The 130-pound weight is the most wide-open: champion Sophia Garcia of California has only wrestled 8 matches and sits at an 1858 rating, while runner-up Brielle Parke (2225) and third-placer Anastasia Rodnikova (2238) have both surpassed her. At 135, Ava Turner of West Virginia (2304) and Noli Paddock of New York (2303) are separated by a single rating point.

The upper weights show the division's growth edge. At 155, KyLee Tibbs of Ohio has climbed from third place to the weight's highest rating at 2275, passing champion Madilyn Gitke (2221) and runner-up Kamryn Bourbon (2264). At 190, JayaShree Bray of Nebraska has been one of the most active wrestlers in any weight with 44 wins. And at 235, Eden Hach of South Dakota (runner-up, 47-3, 2184) has far outpaced champion Aniyah Smith in both volume and rating.

Girls wrestling at the 16U level is no longer a developmental afterthought — it is a proving ground. These 50 returning All-Americans represent 22 different states, from traditional wrestling powers like Iowa and Pennsylvania to emerging programs in South Carolina, South Dakota, and West Virginia. For the full profile on any of these wrestlers, including match history, archetype analysis, and WPR scores, visit their MatMetrics spotlight page. July is coming fast.