Washington Wrestling 2026-27: By the Numbers

Fifteenth in our state-by-state preview series: Washington, where the whole season funnels into one building. Practices open November 16 and everything ends at Mat Classic XXXVIII, February 17-20, 2027 at the Tacoma Dome — boys in five classifications (4A, 3A, 2A, 1A, and combined 1B/2B), girls in four, with no dual-meet team championship: team titles are scored off the individual brackets on the Dome floor. And the funnel got wider — the WIAA eliminated regional tournaments two seasons ago, so district placers now qualify straight into expanded 32-wrestler state brackets. Last season MatMetrics ingested 205,675 matches from 1,929 Washington events involving 36,552 wrestlers — matches up 9% year over year — with girls at just over 31% of the field, fitting for a state that sanctioned girls wrestling in 2007, among the earliest in the country, and still grew its girls numbers almost 18% last year.

February's team races were about streaks, and one geographic oddity. Tahoma won its third straight 4A title with three individual champions and five finalists. Orting ran its 2A streak to five in a row — 395 points to runner-up Toppenish's 235, with five individual champions — and Wapato went back-to-back in 1A ahead of a Zillah team that crowned three champions. Granger edged Tonasket by seven and a half points in 1B/2B. The oddity sits in 3A: Hermiston, an Oregon school that competes in the WIAA's Mid-Columbia Conference, took Washington's 3A trophy home across state lines. On the girls side, Lake Stevens won the first-ever 4A girls team title by five and a half points over Union, Kelso repeated in 3A, Royal won its first girls championship behind three finalists who all won by pin — and Toppenish's girls made state history with a fifth consecutive title, four of them from the smaller-school bracket before moving up to 2A.

The boys storyline is a double four-timer watch under one roof. Ridgefield's twins Mason and Jonas DesRochers each won a third state title in February — both finished 32-0, Mason at 144 and Jonas at 132 in 2A after two 4A titles apiece at Skyview — and only about thirty Washington boys have ever won four. Two more. The state's highest-ranked returner is Capital sophomore Lazarus McEwen, a two-time 3A champion ranked in the national top five at 120, and Tahoma's Owen Marshall, a two-time 4A champion, is nationally ranked at 132. Snohomish heavyweight Odin Schwabenbauer went 47-0 for the 3A 285 crown, and the freshman class announced itself loudly: Gonzaga Prep's Miro Parr-Coffin won 4A at 106 and Mead's Duane Leslie won 4A at 175, both as ninth graders, and both are nationally ranked now. Then there's Orting: four of the champions from its title team return, led by Trevor Anderson — who beat a three-time champion in the 126 final — and two-time champion Nery Rivas.

The girls side lost two legends and returns a national-caliber core. Toppenish's Adalyne Montiel left as a four-time champion — just the seventh Washington girl ever — and Peninsula's Bailey Parker closed a three-title career by pinning all four of her opponents in February. What's back is young and loaded, and a lot of it trains in the same valley: Bonney Lake's Winter West, the 4A 120 champion at 46-0, won a Fargo 16U national freestyle title at 125 this summer and is ranked in the national top 10, and her teammate Lanaia Selig, a freshman, is ranked No. 4 in the country at 100 before her first high-school season. Snohomish's Malia Ottow, a two-time champion who went undefeated at 3A 120, and Sumner's Saige McCleery, a two-time 4A champion at 140, both sit in the national top 10, and Lake Stevens returns Kylee Wicklund, whose pin at 145 clinched that first 4A team title.

Looking ahead, almost every bracket has a streak on the line. Tahoma goes for four straight in 4A, Orting for six in 2A, Toppenish's girls for six, and the DesRochers twins for the double four-timer — potentially on the same Saturday. The broader trend line is just as strong: Washington's 16U boys set a state record with six freestyle All-Americans at Fargo this summer, the state's best team showing there since 1986, while West's Fargo title and Selig's preseason ranking suggest the girls pipeline behind the 2007 sanctioning is still compounding.

The honest caveat, and Washington's was a geography lesson: the top boy on our raw state board was actually Kansas's Thunder Page — his school, Rose Hill, carried a Washington state tag in our database until this week — and the top girl was a Wisconsin college wrestler filed under a Washington club. Club labels hid real schools (McEwen rates under his training club, not Capital), several top names carried multiple profiles — one returning champion had six, another seven — which we linked or left unquoted, and a couple of champions' profiles needed their names re-capitalized. Hermiston, the Oregon school in Washington's 3A, is a cross-state link our school matcher can't make automatically; it's flagged for a manual fix. As always: weights listed are last-competed and wrestlers often move up a class, and career records on our site aggregate club and offseason matches, so they run higher than official single-season marks.

Search any Washington 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 — the series rolls on.