Oklahoma Wrestling 2026-27: By the Numbers

Second in our state-by-state preview series: Oklahoma, where wrestling is less a season than a year-round condition. The numbers back the reputation. Last season MatMetrics ingested 323,609 matches from 548 Oklahoma events involving 28,271 wrestlers — up from 297,644 matches and 25,866 wrestlers the year before. That is growth of nearly nine percent in a state that was already one of the busiest per capita in the country. And the 2026-27 cycle is not waiting for November: the fall slate has already produced close to 3,000 matches.

The headline trend is the girls side. Oklahoma put 9,133 female wrestlers on our mats last season, up from 7,644 the season before — growth of almost 20 percent in a single year. And it is not just participation; it is quality at the very top. Broken Arrow's Emily Beckley enters the season as the No. 1 ranked high school girl in the country at 145 pounds in our rankings, carrying a 2545 rating on a 65-2 record. Behind her, Westmoore's Kyrstan Perez (176-2, ranked No. 3 nationally at 110) and Bixby's Millie Azlin — 74-0, unbeaten in our records, No. 4 at 190 — give Oklahoma three of the top four girls in the national rankings at their weights. No other state matches that concentration at the top.

The boys side is deep where it has always been deep: the light and middle weights. 106 pounds is the bracket to circle — three Oklahomans sit high in the national rankings there, led by Alex Lobdell (2496 rating, No. 10 nationally) with Charlie Flanery and Mustang's Jaegar Romannose close behind. At 126, Stillwater's Ignacio Villasenor is a top-10 wrestler nationally with a 45-5 record, and Edmond's Joseph Jeter ranks No. 6 in the country at 175. For sheer volume, Coweta's Cason Craft has wrestled more than 230 matches in our records at 208-24 — the kind of match count that makes a rating hard to argue with.

The team picture starts where it always starts: Bixby. The Spartans went 23-0 in rated duals and defended their 6A dual state title with a 36-33 thriller over Edmond North in last season's final. Right behind them is Coweta, which went 22-0 and won the 5A dual state title 49-21 over Carl Albert. Cushing and Cache are tight at the top of 4A in our power rankings, and OSSAA's new alignment folds the old 2A into a deeper 3A — stacking last season's top-rated rooms from both classes, Blackwell and Pawhuska, into one bracket. On the girls side, Broken Arrow — Beckley's room — beat Bixby 54-27 for the girls dual state crown and both rooms return the firepower to run it back, while McLoud's 18-2 season carries into the newly consolidated two-class girls alignment (6A and 5A) as a 5A contender.

What to watch when the season opens: whether Beckley, Perez, and Azlin can all finish what the rankings project — Oklahoma has never had a season where three girls closed as national No. 1-caliber wrestlers at once — and whether the 106-pound boys logjam sorts itself out before the state series does it the hard way. Keep an eye on the fall results too; the two early events already in the database are feeding ratings right now, which means Oklahoma wrestlers will hit November with some of the freshest numbers in the country.

The usual honest caveat: wrestlers who compete under both a club and a school registration can still appear under more than one profile, and we have flagged a handful of Oklahoma's top names for exactly that cleanup. The underlying results are real; where a record looks split, the bookkeeping is catching up. If you spot one — or a wrestler listed without a gender on their profile — the report tools on every page go straight to us. And weights listed are where each wrestler last competed; expect some to move up a class when the season opens.

Search any Oklahoma wrestler, team, or event above to see where they stand, or pull up the state rankings and sort by weight class. One state a day through the fall — Texas is next.