- Scholastic wrestling ranks 6th of all boys' sports in terms of participation at the high school level with over 257,000 nation-wide.
- Since 1997/98, the number of participants who wrestle in high school has grown by about 28,000.
- Since 1994, the number of high schools that sponsor wrestling has grown from 8,559 to 9,445.
- The Cadet/Junior National Championships is the largest wrestling tournament in the world (over 3600 entries).
- The average G.P.A. of the nation's top elite high school wrestlers competing in the National High School Championships is 3.0.
- Since 1994, the number of women who wrestle in high school has grown from 804 to over 5000.
(INFORMATION PROVIDED BY NCAA AND GAO REPORT)
- Intercollegiate wrestling is approaching 100 years of competition.
- Collegiate wrestling typically ranks in the top 3-5 in revenue production of all NCAA Championships (over 96,000 tickets sold in 2007).
- Forty-eight new intercollegiate wrestling teams (all divisions) have been established since 1999 (twenty have been eliminated in the same period).
- Wrestling was included in the ancient Olympic Games, and was one of the select sports included in the first modern Olympic Games in Athens , Greece in 1896
- Over 135 nations sponsor a wrestling federation.
- Women's wrestling is now a recognized Olympic sport.
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