Hodge Trophy Winners By....

On Monday, WIN Magazine announced that Oklahoma State national champion Wyatt Hendrickson would be the recipient of 2025 Dan Hodge Trophy. The trophy is often called the Heisman Trophy of wrestling and is awarded to the most dominant wrestler of a particular year. 

This is the 31st year that the trophy has been awarded. Since we have plenty of history associated with the trophy, we’ve decided to look at some of the recipients via a couple of different facts. By college, by weight class by home state and those that went on to make an Olympic team. 
 

School

Arizona State

Eric Larkin (2003)
 

Cornell

Kyle Dake (2013)
 

CSU Bakersfield

Stephen Neal (1999)
 

Iowa

Mark Ironside (1998)

Spencer Lee (2020, 2021)

Brent Metcalf (2008)
 

Iowa State

Cael Sanderson (2000, 2001, 2002)
 

Michigan

Mason Parris (2023)
 

Minnesota

Jayson Ness (2010)

Gable Steveson (2021, 2022)
 

Missouri

Ben Askren (2006, 2007)
 

Montana State - Northern

Emmett Wilson (2004)
 

Nebraska

Jordan Burroughs (2011)
 

North Carolina

TJ Jaworsky (1995)
 

Northwestern

Jake Herbert (2009)
 

Ohio State

Logan Stieber (2015)
 

Oklahoma State

Alex Dieringer (2016)

Wyatt Hendrickson (2025)

Steve Mocco (2005)
 

Oregon State

Les Gutches (1996)
 

Penn State

Aaron Brooks (2024)

Kerry McCoy (1997)

Bo Nickal (2019)

Zain Retherford (2017, 2018)

David Taylor (2012, 2014)

Simpson College

Nick Ackerman (2001)

 

Weight Class

125: Lee (x2)

133: Ironside (134), Jaworsky (134), Ness

141: Stieber

149: Larkin, Metcalf, Retherford (x2)

165: Burroughs, Dake, Dieringer, Taylor (x2)

174: Ackerman, Askren (x2), Gutches (177)

184: Herbert, Sanderson (x2)

197: Brooks, Nickal, Sanderson, Wilson

285: Hendrickson, McCoy, Mocco, Neal, Parris, Steveson (x2)
 

Home State

Arizona: Larkin

California: Neal

Indiana: Parris

Iowa: Ackerman, Ironside

Kansas: Hendrickson

Maryland: Brooks

Michigan: Metcalf

Minnesota: Ness, Steveson (x2)

Montana: Wilson

New Jersey: Burroughs, Mocco

New York: Dake, McCoy

Ohio: Taylor (x2), Stieber

Oklahoma: Jaworsky

Oregon: Gutches

Pennsylvania: Herbert, Lee (x2), Retherford (x2)

Texas: Nickal

Utah: Sanderson (x2)

Wisconsin: Askren (x2), Dieringer

US Olympians: Askren, Burroughs, Dake, Herbert, Lee, McCoy, Mocco, Parris, Sanderson, Steveson, Taylor