Wyatt Hendrickson

2025-26 Team USA Ranking: No. 1 at 125 kg

Years on Team USA: 1 (2025-26) 

Residence: Stillwater, Okla.

Hometown: Newton, Kan.

Regional Training Center: Cowboy RTC

Club: U.S. Air Force WCAP

Personal Coach: David Taylor

College: Oklahoma State, Air Force

High School: Newton, Kan.

Born: January 13, 2001 in Newton, Kan.

Age-Group World Teams 

2023 U23 Worlds (Gold at 125 kg), 2021 U20 Worlds (5th at 125 kg)

Career Highlights

• Senior World Team member
• U23 World Championships gold medalist
• Two-time U23 World Team member
• U.S. Open champion
• NCAA champion for Oklahoma State

Career Biography

2025: Senior Pan American Championships gold medalist in Monterrey, Mexico… Final X champion… U.S. Open champion…

2023: U23 World Championships gold medalist in Tirana, Albania… Fourth at Senior World Team Trials Challenge Tournament… Fourth at U.S. Open…

2021: Fifth at U20 World Championships in Ufa, Russia…

College: 2025 NCAA Champion at 285 pounds for Oklahoma State under head coach David Taylor… Defeated 2020 Olympic champion Gable Steveson of Minnesota in the 2025 NCAA finals… Became the third Oklahoma State Cowboy to win the Dan Hodge Trophy… Third in 2023 and 2024 NCAA Championships for Air Force… Three-time NCAA All-American… Five-time NCAA Championships qualifier… Three-time Big 12 Tournament champion… Finished career with a 127-11 record…

High School: Two-time Kansas state champion and three-time finalist at Newton High School…

Age-Group: 2023 U23 Nationals champion… 2021 U20 Nationals champion… 2019 Sixth at U20 Nationals… 2018 USA Wrestling Junior Nationals third in freestyle, fifth in Greco-Roman… Seventh in 2018 U17 Nationals in freestyle and Greco-Roman… 2018 USA Wrestling Junior Folkstyle Nationals runner-up… Third in 2017 USA Wrestling Cadet Nationals in freestyle and Greco-Roman… 2017 Southern Plains Regional Cadet Greco-Roman champion, third in freestyle… Fourth in 2016 Southern Plains Regional Cadet freestyle…

Personal: Son of Lynnette and Todd Hendrickson…Has two sisters, Megan and Gracie…

Awards: 2025 Dan Hodge Trophy award winner as nation’s best college wrestler…