Oregon Wrestling 2026-27: By the Numbers

Sixth in our state-by-state preview series: Oregon, which gives this series something no state before it has — four separate wrestlers starting the winter three-for-three in state finals. Last season MatMetrics ingested 115,081 matches from 988 Oregon events involving 21,619 wrestlers, up from 103,522 matches and 20,024 wrestlers the year before. The structure is distinctive: the OSAA runs boys wrestling in five brackets — 6A down through a combined 2A/1A — and this season opens a new 2026-2030 classification block in which the girls division expands from two brackets to three (6A, 5A, and a combined 4A/3A/2A/1A), a realignment that is a direct response to how fast the girls side is growing. Practices open November 16, the first matches count December 2, and everything funnels to Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Portland the last weekend of February.

About that growth: 6,209 Oregon girls took the mat last season, up 17 percent in a year — and nearly 29 percent of all Oregon wrestlers in our database are girls, a share second only to Arkansas among the states in this series. The flagbearer is St. Helens' Jadyn Pense, a three-time champion at 170 who went 45-0 last season, is ranked in the national top 30, and has swept the state's folkstyle, freestyle, and Greco titles three years running — her senior-year bid for a fourth crown is the headline chase on the girls side. Crater's Audrey Robinson (two-time champion, 27-0, ranked No. 11 nationally) and Burns' Megan Weil (two-time champion at 190, 37-0, No. 26) are both only juniors and both unbeaten in title runs. Behind them the pipeline is loaded: Crook County's Lauren Echeverria went 48-0 and won state as a freshman, McNary's Marlina Martinez chases a third title, Coquille's Paisley Morrison is a nationally ranked reigning champ, Harrisburg's Paxton Steele is 57-1 off her second title — and Banks returns twin sophomores, Madison Turner and Kenzie Turner, who each won a championship as freshmen.

The boys side has three four-title chases of its own, and they could hardly be more different. Crater's Jeremiah Oliva is the technician — a three-time champion at 126 with a 108-10 career record anchoring the state's most decorated active room. Bend's Leif Larwin is the national name — a three-time champion at 175, 123-6 in his career, committed to Oregon State, and the only Oregonian in the national preseason rankings. And Sweet Home's Jesse Landtroop is the one with fresh hardware — a three-time champion who came home from Fargo in July as a Junior National All-American. No Oregon season in memory has started with three boys and a girl all sitting on three titles.

The next tier is deep enough to make February crowded. Mountainside's Isaac Conner has won 6A titles in each of his first two seasons — at 38-1 last year, he is quietly on a four-title track of his own, a year behind the seniors. Thurston's Michael Salas-Sanchez (two-time champion at 120, with his brother Lukas a returning finalist beside him) and Forest Grove's Archy De La Rosa (two-time champion at 126) both chase a third. Crook County's Casen Villastrigo, Cascade's Hans Kamm, Clackamas' Caleb Enoch, and Crater's Ryland Walters — whose father won a state title in 1990 and whose brother won one in 2023 — all return as reigning champions, and Sweet Home sophomore Cody Sieminski, the younger brother of a four-time champion, placed third at the U16 US Open after a one-point loss in the state final as a freshman.

The team races come off a February worth recounting. Newberg ran its 6A streak to three straight titles by 58 points — the Tigers have won five of the last six and own the largest trophy case in the state. The meet of the year was 5A, where Thurston finally broke through 291-283 over defending champion Crater — the Colts' first team title since 2002 after three consecutive runner-up finishes, decided by an 11-9 upset in the 150 final. Sweet Home won 4A by 81 points for coach Steve Thorpe's eighth title there, Harrisburg edged Nyssa by five in 3A, and Culver won 2A/1A by 90. On the girls side, Crook County won the first team championship in program history — under a first-year head coach, with a freshman going 48-0 — while La Grande three-peated in the small-school division with a tournament-record 132 points and not a single individual champion. Our power ratings had Newberg, Crater, and Thurston within 25 points of each other at the top of the boys board, which February validated; on the girls side the ratings liked runner-up Dallas, and the honest read for 2026-27 is that champion Crook County — which returns Echeverria — and a Thurston boys room that returns four finalists are the teams the numbers will chase upward all winter.

The honest caveat, Oregon edition: this state feeds our database an enormous amount of youth and club volume, so the career records on our site often run higher than the press-reported season records — a wrestler's profile may include offseason club matches, and a few of the biggest names still carry results split across registrations. The accomplishments above are the web-verified ones. Where a record looks off, the bookkeeping is catching up, and the report tools on every profile come straight to us. As always, weights listed are where each wrestler last competed — expect moves before December 2.

Search any Oregon wrestler, team, or event above to see where they stand heading into the winter, or pull up the state rankings and sort by weight class. One state a day through the fall — the series rolls on.