Who are the super star college prospects that are Juniors in HS or younger?

[Dark Energy]

From 2024-2026 the HS graduating class has had monsters coming into D1 wrestling.  Amazing crop.  We heard about many of them for a while.  Seems like the HS classes of 2027 to 2029 don’t have as many super studs being discussed.  I may be missing it.

Who are they?

Seeing some headlines on Arseni Kikiniou.

Melvin Miller has also been a hot topic. 

Others?

[Cowboy08]

Cameron Howard, Spencer Lee, Jace Rooney, Gavin Mangano all from New York are Juniors or younger 

[mattramosjr]

MJ Staples 165 SO  Indiana  Most likely VT commit

sammy sanchez 126  SO CA

Ariah Mills 113 FR Georgia

Kameron Hazelett 285 SO IN

Keegan Bassett 113 SO PA

 

[pcostilow]

17 hours ago, Cowboy08 said:

Cameron Howard, Spencer Lee, Jace Rooney, Gavin Mangano all from New York are Juniors or younger 

How many are out of KD? Seems like he has one monster after another

[SplitTheG]

You mentioned Melvin and Kikiniou, two big names.

Other HS Juniors to watch (Class of 2027) - Jimmy Mastny (from Illinois I believe, committed to Iowa State), and Michael Boyle (from Ohio, committed to Ohio State). They both won U20 US Open, at 92 and 97kg respectively.

[GimJustafan]

3 hours ago, pcostilow said:

How many are out of KD? Seems like he has one monster after another

Howard and Mangano for sure 

 

not positive on lee or rooney 

[Sir Charles]

2 juniors from Ohio:

Previously mentioned Boyle at 215.  He’s an absolute animal and is committed to wrestling for now.  But is a great DE on a 2 time state championship football team so the NIL offers will be coming in from football.  He’s underrated because his football team going all the way limits his early season tourneys.  I personally think he should be in the ranking for the #1 overall national recruit in high school.  
 

Almost everyone has Grey Burnett at 126 as the top dude from Ohio though.  Ironman champ and 2nd at the u20.  His dad is an uber elite coach who created a national powerhouse program basically from scratch.  Grey was also Marcus Blaze’s training partner who will be joining him at Penn St. 

[Jayd]

Cohen Reer Oh

Loc Webber Oh

[MPhillips]

7 hours ago, Sir Charles said:

2 juniors from Ohio:

@Sir Charles close to St. Charles...

[RandolphTJones]

2 hours ago, Jayd said:

Cohen Reer Oh

Loc Webber Oh

Big on Cohen Reer, far and away the best freshman in Ohio this past season.

[SplitTheG]

19 hours ago, GimJustafan said:

Howard and Mangano for sure 

 

not positive on lee or rooney 

Lee is a KD guy

[JoeyLee]

20 hours ago, SplitTheG said:

You mentioned Melvin and Kikiniou, two big names.

Other HS Juniors to watch (Class of 2027) - Jimmy Mastny (from Illinois I believe, committed to Iowa State), and Michael Boyle (from Ohio, committed to Ohio State). They both won U20 US Open, at 92 and 97kg respectively.

been watching mastny closely as and ISU fan. seems to really be ascending very happy with him and merrill coming in to man the upperweights for the foreseeable future 

[Tyler Perry]

Some more underrated guys:

27 Jimmy Mastny (IL) (Iowa State) is a top 10 guy but not often talked about.

27 Jesse Grajeda (CA) (Ohio state I think) taken some wonky losses but he has excellent leg attacks and scrambling ability. 
 

27 Ronan An (GA) (Northwestern maybe?)

27 Carter Brown (MO)

 

28 Kam Hazelett (IN)

28 Finnegan O’Brien (NY)

28 Ryder Schulte (AZ)

28 Iziyah Chavez (TX)

 

29 Michael Bernabe (CA)

29- Leo Murillo (PA)

29- Oliver Pulliam (TX)

[ceraIOI]

On 5/1/2026 at 2:08 PM, Tyler Perry said:

27 Ronan An (GA) (Northwestern maybe?)

wanna say Princeton? but might be following Wilder, know he's smart tho

[scourge165]

On 4/29/2026 at 3:40 PM, Dark Energy said:

From 2024-2026 the HS graduating class has had monsters coming into D1 wrestling.  Amazing crop.  We heard about many of them for a while.  Seems like the HS classes of 2027 to 2029 don’t have as many super studs being discussed.  I may be missing it.

Who are they?

Seeing some headlines on Arseni Kikiniou.

Melvin Miller has also been a hot topic. 

Others?

Yeah, I was going to say 'I'm not sure if those classes were really that great or if it was just more publicized that you had those guys on the same Bishop McCort team and Bassett got so much publicity,' but... you're right, those three years were just insane. 

And we haven't even seen the class of '26 with Ross, Merrill who just beat Ross, Jayden James and one of the highest profile recruits in a long time in Bassett.