Luke Lilledahl

2025-26 Team USA Ranking: No. 2 at 57 kg/125 pounds

Years on Team USA: 1 (2025-26) 

Residence: State College, Pa.

Regional Training Center: Nittany Lion WC 

Club: Titan Mercury WC

Personal Coach: Drew Lilledahl, Sammie Henson, Lucas Steldt, Cornell Robinson

High School: Kingston, Pa. (Wyoming Seminary Preparatory School), St. Louis, Mo. (Christian Brothers College High School)

Born: August 1, 2005

Age-Group World Teams

2025 U23 Worlds (Gold at 57 kg), 2024 U20 Worlds (Gold at 57 kg), 2023 U20 Worlds (Silver at 57 kg), 2022 U17 Worlds (Gold at 51 kg), 2021 U17 Worlds (Silver at 48 kg)

Career Highlights 

• Three-time age-group World champion
• Five-time age-group World medalist
• Five-time age-group Pan American champion
• U.S. Open Champion
• NCAA All-American

Career Biography

2025: Gold medalist at U23 World Championships in Novi Sad, Serbia … Gold medalist at U23 Pan American Championships in Queretaro, Mexico … Gold medalist at Polyak Imre & Varga Janos Memorial Ranking Series event in Budapest, Hungary … Final X runner-up … U.S. Open champion

2024: Gold medalist at U20 World Championships in Pontevedra, Spain … Gold medalist at U20 Pan American Championships in Lima, Peru … U.S. Open champion … U20 World Team Trials champion

2023: Silver medalist at U20 World Championships in Amman, Jordan … Gold medalist at U20 Pan American Championships in Santiago de Chile, Chile … Bronze medalist at Bill Farrell Memorial International … Placed fifth at Senior Nationals … U20 World Team Trials champion … U.S. Open U20 champion

2022: Gold medalist at U17 World Championships in Rome, Italy … U.S. Open U17 champion

2021: Silver medalist at U17 World Championships in Budapest, Hungary … Gold medalist at U17 Pan American Championships in Oaxtepec, Mexico, in both freestyle and Greco-Roman … UWW Cadet Nationals champion … UWW Cadet Nationals Greco-Roman bronze medalist

2019: Silver medalist at UWW U15 Freestyle Nationals … Bronze medalist at UWW Greco-Roman Nationals

College: Finished third at 2025 NCAA National Championships … 2025 NCAA All-American … 2025 Big Ten champion … 2025 First Team All-Big Ten

High School: Two-time team captain in high school … Lettered four years

USA Wrestling Age-Group: 2022 USA Wrestling Phil Portuese Northeast Regional champion … 2021 Junior Frank E. Rader Southeast Regional champion … 2021 16U Frank E. Rader Southeast Regional Greco-Roman runner-up … 2021 16U Northern Plains Regional champion … Placed fifth at 2019 Kids Freestyle Nationals … 2019 Kids Greco-Roman Nationals runner-up … 2019 Southern Plains Regional champion in both freestyle and Greco-Roman … 2018 Kids Freestyle Nationals runner-up … 2018 Kids Greco-Roman Nationals bronze medalist … 2018 Kids Folkstyle Nationals runner-up … 2018 Southern Plains Regional Greco-Roman champion … 2018 Southern Plains Regional freestyle bronze medalist … 2017 Preseason Nationals champion … 2017 Kids Freestyle and Greco-Roman Nationals champion … 2016 Preseason Nationals bronze medalist … 2016 Kids Freestyle Nationals champion … 2016 Southern Plains Regional freestyle champion … 2016 Southern Plains Regional Greco-Roman bronze medalist … 2015 Preseason Nationals runner-up … 2015 Kids Freestyle Nationals champion … Placed fifth at 2015 Kids Greco-Roman Nationals … 2015 Kids Folkstyle Nationals champion … 2015 NCAA USA Wrestling Youth Showcase champion … Placed fifth at 2014 Preseason Nationals … 2014 Kids Freestyle and Greco-Roman Nationals runner-up … Placed fifth at 2014 Kids Folkstyle Nationals … 2013 Kids Folkstyle Nationals runner-up

Personal: Son of Heather and Drew Lilledahl … Father wrestled collegiately at Southwest Missouri State and Missouri … Has two brothers, Dalton and Conner

Awards: Two-time Junior Hodge Trophy winner