2024-25 Dan Hodge Trophy Award Rankings

2025 Dan Hodge Trophy Rankings

Gable Steveson is back! Already a 2X Dan Hodge Trophy Award winner, he will look to become the only 3X winner outside of Cael Sanderson. If he wrestles a full season, I think the voters will give it to him unless Carter Starocci has a significantly higher bonus rate including another dominant win over Parker Keckeisen. However, I put him at the #2 spot for now as he has not wrestled a match yet this season and Starocci just defeated Keckeisen.

I left Keckeisen and Beau Bartlett at the #20 and #21 spots despite losing at the All-Star Classic with the caveat that the event is technically an exhibition. If they go undefeated the rest of the season, their official records will show them as undefeated on the year and they will likely be finalists eligible for voting. However, I have included the All-Star results in the records and stats below.

Hodge Trophy Voting Criteria:

1 – Record

2 – Dominance/Bonus-Point Percentage

3 – Quality of Competition

4 – Sportsmanship

RANKNAMESCHOOLWEIGHTYEARPREVIOUSRECORDPINSBONUS
RATE
DOMINANCE
SCORE
1Carter StarocciPenn State184SR12-0
50%4
2Gable StevesonMinnesota285SRNR0-0


3Keegan O'TooleMissouri174SR36-01100%5
4Mitchell MesenbrinkPenn State165SO41-0
100%5
5Jesse MendezOhio State141JR86-0
83%5.66
6Levi HainesPenn State174JR52-0
50%4
7Greg KerkvlietPenn State285SR61-01100%6
8Andrew AlirezNorthern Colorado141SR73-0
66%4
9Wyatt HendricksonOK State285SR92-0
100%5
10AJ FerrariCSU-Bakersfield197JR102-0
50%4
11Ryan CrookhamLehigh133SO111-0
100%5
12Caleb HensonVirginia Tech149JR121-0
100%4
13Shayne Van NessPenn State149SO171-0
100%4
14Ridge LovettNebraska149SR133-0266%5
15Michael CaliendoIowa165JR163-0
66%4.33
16Stephen BuchananIowa197SR203-0
66%4.33
17Jacori TeemerIowa157SRNR2-01100%5
18Yonger BastidaIowa State285SR140-0


19Richard FigueroaArizona State125JR182-0150%4.5
20Parker KeckeisenNorthern Iowa184SR20-1
0%-3
21Beau BartlettPenn State141SR150-1
0%-3