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Dan Hodge Trophy

Collegiate wrestling award

The Dan Hodge Trophy is awarded each year to the United States of America’s best college wrestler. The trophy is presented at the end of the season by WIN magazine and Culture House. It is the collegiate wrestling equivalent to the Heisman Trophy in college football. Its high school wrestling equivalent is the Junior Hodge Trophy, which has been awarded annually since 1998.

The Hodge Trophy is named after Danny Hodge, a three–time NCAA champion for the University of Oklahoma from 1955 to 1957. The Hodge Trophy was created by Mike Chapman, founder of WIN magazine and Culture House, a company that produces books and posters. The first winner was T.J. Jaworsky, a three–time NCAA Division I National champion from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1995.

There have been six multiple winners of the Hodge Trophy. The first was Iowa State's legend Cael Sanderson, who won the award three times in his run as the first undefeated four–time NCAA champion, the second was Ben Askren from Missouri, who won the award two times, the third and fourth were David Taylor and Zain Retherford respectively, both from Penn State, who won the award two times, the fifth is Spencer Lee from Iowa, and the sixth (and most recent) is Gable Steveson, who won the award two times, becoming the only heavyweight to do so.

Award criteria

Since 2022, the Hodge Trophy Voting Criteria has been based on four criteria:

Record
Dominance/Bonus-Point Percentage
Quality of Competition
Sportsmanship

Formerly, the trophy was awarded based on seven criteria:

Record
Number of pins
Dominance
Past credentials
Quality of competition
Sportsmanship/Citizenship
Heart

Hodge Trophy Winners

Year	Recipient	Weight	School	Finalists*
	Wyatt Hendrickson		Oklahoma State	Wyatt Hendrickson (30), Carter Starocci (26), Mitchell Mesenbrink (3)
	Aaron Brooks		Penn State	Aaron Brooks (48), Parker Keckeisen (8), Carter Starocci (2), Greg Kerkvliet (1), Levi Haines (0)
	Mason Parris		Michigan	Mason Parris (38), Carter Starocci (14), Yianni Diakomihalis (6), Andrew Alirez (4), Austin O'Connor (2)
	Gable Steveson		Minnesota	Gable Steveson (49), Yianni Diakomihalis (5), Nick Lee (3)
	Spencer Lee
Gable Steveson		Iowa
Spencer Lee, Gable Steveson, David Carr, Roman Bravo-Young, Aaron Brooks, Austin O'Connor
	Spencer Lee		Iowa	Spencer Lee (52), Kollin Moore (3), Ryan Deakin (1), Shane Griffith (1), Noah Adams (0), Pat Glory (0), Chas Tucker (0), Gable Steveson (0)
	Bo Nickal		Penn State	Bo Nickal (37), Jason Nolf (10), Co-Winner Nickal/Nolf (4), Yianni Diakomihalis (0), Anthony Ashnault (0)
	Zain Retherford		Penn State	Zain Retherford (35), Bo Nickal (6), Seth Gross (4), Zahid Valencia (3)
	Zain Retherford		Penn State	Zain Retherford (33), J'Den Cox (5), Kyle Snyder (4), Jason Nolf (3)
	Alex Dieringer		Oklahoma State	Alex Dieringer (27), Zain Retherford (14), Kyle Snyder (3), Nahshon Garrett (1)
	Logan Stieber		Ohio State	Logan Stieber (38), Alex Dieringer (3), Isaiah Martinez (1), Nick Gwiazdowski (1)
	David Taylor		Penn State	David Taylor (38), Logan Stieber (3), Ed Ruth (2), Chris Perry (2), Alex Dieringer
	Kyle Dake		Cornell	Kyle Dake (39), Ed Ruth (4), Jordan Oliver, Logan Stieber
	David Taylor		Penn State	David Taylor, Ed Ruth, Kyle Dake, Frank Molinaro, Cam Simaz, Matt McDonough
	Jordan Burroughs		Nebraska	Jordan Burroughs, Jordan Oliver, Anthony Robles, Jon Reader, Kellen Russell
	Jayson Ness		Minnesota	Jayson Ness, Jake Varner, Jay Borschel
	Jake Herbert		Northwestern	Jake Herbert, Brent Metcalf, Jordan Burroughs, Jake Varner, Mike Pucillo
	Brent Metcalf		Iowa	Brent Metcalf, Keith Gavin, Mike Pucillo, Phil Davis, Angel Escobedo, Tervel Dlagnev, Dustin Fox
	Ben Askren		Missouri	Ben Askren, Cole Konrad, Jake Herbert, Derek Moore
	Ben Askren		Missouri	Ben Askren, Les Sigman, Nate Gallick, Cole Konrad, Ben Cherrington
	Steve Mocco		Oklahoma State	Steve Mocco, Greg Jones
	Emmett Willson		Montana State-Northern	Emmett Wilson, Scott Moore, Matt Gentry, Greg Jones
	Eric Larkin		Arizona State	Eric Larkin, Matt Lackey, Steve Mocco, Travis Lee
	Cael Sanderson		Iowa State	Cael Sanderson, Stephen Abas
	Nick Ackerman
Cael Sanderson		Simpson College,	Nick Ackerman, Cael Sanderson, Stephen Abas,
	Cael Sanderson		Iowa State	Cael Sanderson
	Stephen Neal		Cal State Bakersfield	Stephen Neal
	Mark Ironside		Iowa	Mark Ironside
	Kerry McCoy		Penn State	Kerry McCoy
	Les Gutches		Oregon State	Les Gutches
	T.J. Jaworsky		North Carolina	T.J. Jaworsky, Lincoln McIlravy, Joel Sharratt, Kerry McCoy

Number of first place ballot votes from the Hodge Committee is indicated in parentheses

** In 2001 and 2021, the Dan Hodge Trophy was shared by two co-winners

Junior Hodge Trophy Winners

Year	Recipient	School
2024	Luke Lilledahl	Wyoming Seminary (Pa.)
2023	Cael Hughes	Stillwater (Okla.)
2022	Nick Feldman	Malvern Prep (Pa.)
2021	Jesse Mendez	Crown Point (Ind.)
2020	Keegan O’Toole	Arrowhead (Hartland, Wisc.)
2019	Andrew Alirez	Greeley Central (Colo.)
2018	Gable Steveson	Apple Valley (Minn.)
2017	Daton Fix	Sand Springs (Okla.)
2016	Mark Hall	Apple Valley (Minn.)
2015	Zahid Valencia	St. John Bosco (Bellflower, Calif.)
2014	Chance Marsteller	Kennard-Dale (Fawn Grove, Pa.)
2013	Bo Jordan	Graham (St. Paris, Ohio)
2012	Jordan Rogers	Mead (Spokane, Wash.)
2011	Logan Storley	Webster (S.D.)
2010	Logan Stieber	Monroeville (Ohio)
2009	Chris Perry	Stillwater (Oklahoma)
2008	Jason Welch	Las Lomas (Walnut Creek, Calif.)
2007	Cody Gardner	Christianburg (Va.)
2006	David Craig	Brandon (Florida)
2005	Troy Nickerson	Chenango Forks (New York)
2004	Jeff Jaggers	St. Peter Chanel (Bedford, Ohio)
2003	Mark Perry	Blair Academy (Blairstown, N.J.)
2002	Teyon Ware	Edmond North (Oklahoma)
2001	Steve Mocco	Blair Academy (Blairstown, N.J.)
2000	Jesse Jantzen	Shoreham Wading River (New York)
1999	Damion Hahn	Lakewood (New Jersey)
1998	Shane Roller	Bixby (Oklahoma)

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