With a full list of all 2,470 Wyoming state wrestling individual champions now available on champlists.com, we can break down those champions by a number of different ways — the most obvious by school.
As the list below shows, Green River is Wyoming’s individual champion capital, with 117 individual championships coming from the Wolves’ ranks. Other schools with at least 100 individual championships are Campbell County (105), Natrona, Powell and Star Valley (104 each), and Worland (100).
Down at the bottom of the list, though, are 10 programs listed with one champion apiece.
And that, too, is incredibly interesting.
Of those 10 champions, only one champion is from an active program — and that is Hanna’s James Montez. Montez was the Class 2A 145-pound champion in 2010, the Miners’ first and only state champion.
Six others come from defunct programs. In chronological order, they are Guernsey’s Myron Baker (1947), LaGrange’s Joe Alire (1972), University Prep’s John Trujillo (1972), Medicine Bow’s Robert Casey (1973), Jeffrey City’s Jamie Evans (1980) and Burlington’s Ron Pace (1989).
The remaining three are kind of outliers from co-op programs. Kaleb Brothwell (2022) is Lingle-Southeast’s only champion, as is Lincoln Siebert (2021) of Burns-Pine Bluffs. However, both co-ops are relatively new, and all four schools have their fair share of their own individual champions. Similarly, Riverside’s Steve Bower (1989) is Riverside’s only champ listed, but Basin pre-Riverside days, as well as Basin/Manderson wrestlers as part of the Greybull-Riverside co-op, have won plenty of individual titles.
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Here are the state wrestling champion tallies by school or wrestling co-op:
| School | Total |
|---|---|
| Green River | 117 |
| Campbell County | 105 |
| Natrona | 104 |
| Powell | 104 |
| Star Valley | 104 |
| Worland | 100 |
| Douglas | 84 |
| Rock Springs | 84 |
| Cheyenne Central | 78 |
| Laramie | 74 |
| Lusk | 72 |
| Lovell | 69 |
| Moorcroft | 66 |
| Sheridan | 66 |
| Cody | 64 |
| Torrington | 64 |
| Kemmerer | 63 |
| Cokeville | 61 |
| Upton | 56 |
| Saratoga | 53 |
| Kelly Walsh | 52 |
| Cheyenne East | 48 |
| Wheatland | 46 |
| Buffalo | 44 |
| Lander | 44 |
| Mountain View | 44 |
| Evanston | 43 |
| Newcastle | 39 |
| Lingle | 37 |
| Wind River | 35 |
| Rawlins | 33 |
| Hulett | 32 |
| Greybull-Riverside | 31 |
| Lyman | 29 |
| Greybull | 28 |
| Wright | 28 |
| Riverton | 27 |
| Sundance | 25 |
| Thermopolis | 25 |
| Midwest | 24 |
| Shoshoni | 22 |
| Glenrock | 20 |
| Rocky Mountain | 18 |
| Jackson | 15 |
| Dubois | 10 |
| Thunder Basin | 10 |
| Pinedale | 9 |
| Big Piney | 8 |
| Southeast | 8 |
| Basin | 7 |
| Kaycee-Midwest | 6 |
| Pine Bluffs | 6 |
| Burns | 5 |
| Newcastle-Upton | 4 |
| Cheyenne South | 3 |
| Hulett-Sundance | 3 |
| Encampment | 2 |
| Seton/St. Mary's | 2 |
| Burlington | 1 |
| Burns-Pine Bluffs | 1 |
| Guernsey | 1 |
| Hanna | 1 |
| Jeffrey City | 1 |
| LaGrange | 1 |
| Lingle-Southeast | 1 |
| Medicine Bow | 1 |
| Riverside | 1 |
| University Prep | 1 |
–patrick