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:

SchoolTotal
Green River117
Campbell County105
Natrona104
Powell104
Star Valley104
Worland100
Douglas84
Rock Springs84
Cheyenne Central78
Laramie74
Lusk72
Lovell69
Moorcroft66
Sheridan66
Cody64
Torrington64
Kemmerer63
Cokeville61
Upton56
Saratoga53
Kelly Walsh52
Cheyenne East48
Wheatland46
Buffalo44
Lander44
Mountain View44
Evanston43
Newcastle39
Lingle37
Wind River35
Rawlins33
Hulett32
Greybull-Riverside31
Lyman29
Greybull28
Wright28
Riverton27
Sundance25
Thermopolis25
Midwest24
Shoshoni22
Glenrock20
Rocky Mountain18
Jackson15
Dubois10
Thunder Basin10
Pinedale9
Big Piney8
Southeast8
Basin7
Kaycee-Midwest6
Pine Bluffs6
Burns5
Newcastle-Upton4
Cheyenne South3
Hulett-Sundance3
Encampment2
Seton/St. Mary's2
Burlington1
Burns-Pine Bluffs1
Guernsey1
Hanna1
Jeffrey City1
LaGrange1
Lingle-Southeast1
Medicine Bow1
Riverside1
University Prep1

–patrick

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