High school · North Dakota
North Dakota high school girls' wrestling
NDHSAA has crowned girls' state champions in North Dakota since 2022. 491 girls wrestled here in 2025-26, at 108 schools.
By Joe Spisak, Pennsylvania state champion and 4x NCAA qualifier at Virginia · Published September 3, 2026
The association
Sanctioned
- Association
- NDHSAA
- Girls' championship
- Yes, first held in 2022
- Format
- Girls' divisions inside the state wrestling championships
- Source
- ndhsaa.com, read 2026-09-03
What the record shows
The first NDHSAA girls wrestling championships ran February 17 to 19, 2022. The weight class set is null and this is a real mismatch, not a transcription error: the NDHSAA publishes 13 girls classes but the top class is 250, not the 235 of the NFHS 13 class set, and its own 2026 champion recap names girls champions at 250. Weight classes re-read 2026-09-20: The NDHSAA girls regulations page still carries the 2025-26 heading on September 20, 2026. It prints the NFHS 13 class list with the top class at 250 rather than 235, so the set stays null. The 19 percent body fat floor already appears in the text. Weight classes re-read 2026-09-22: no 2026-27 document found on ndhsaa.com/regulations/wrestling-girls as of 2026-09-22; the page still carries the 2025-26 Girls Wrestling Regulations heading and the 250 top class.
The 2026-27 North Dakota championship carries the dates, the venue, and the qualifying path.
How many girls wrestle in North Dakota
The NFHS High School Athletics Participation Survey, girls' wrestling column. Every number here is the survey's own; nothing is estimated or carried forward.
That is 15 fewer girls than 2024-25, down 3 percent.
Weight classes
NDHSAA publishes a girls' list of its own, 13 classes, and it matches none of the three NFHS sets: it is the 13-class set with 250 in place of 235. Here it is as the NDHSAA's 2025-26 document prints it.
- 100
- 106
- 112
- 118
- 124
- 130
- 136
- 142
- 148
- 155
- 170
- 190
- 250
Scratch weights, in pounds. Read off NDHSAA 2025-26 Girls Wrestling Regulations on 2026-09-29. That is the 2025-26 list, and the season bulletin your coach has is the final word until the NDHSAA posts its 2026-27 list. The weight classes page puts it beside the three NFHS sets.
Growth allowance
The NFHS book says a growth allowance of 2 pounds "may be added to each weight class any time after the date of certification" (4-4-4). The NDHSAA decides whether and when it applies.
The NDHSAA sets when it applies; see its rules at ndhsaa.com, or ask your coach for the season bulletin.
Consecutive-day allowance
On consecutive days of team competition, the NFHS book grants every wrestler 1 pound a day, up to 2 pounds, when the opponent has been given at least 48 hours' notice (4-5-5). The NDHSAA decides whether and when it applies and can add conditions of its own; what its documents say is below.
We have not yet read the NDHSAA weigh-in rules. Ask your coach for the season bulletin.
If she weighs in above her plan
We have not yet read the NDHSAA weigh-in rules. Ask your coach for the season bulletin.
What to do if your school has no girls' team
NDHSAA publishes a rule for this. The NDHSAA requires girls to wrestle only other girls in both the regular season and the postseason, so a girl whose school has no girls program is served through a cooperative sponsorship agreement approved by the NDHSAA board of directors. Winter sports cooperative applications are due September 15 before the season starts.
From ndhsaa.com, read 2026-09-03. The rule is the association's to change; the link goes to the page that will carry the change.
The general path, in the order that works: ask the athletic director first, in writing, whether the school will enter you and under what rule. Most schools have never been asked, and the answer to a written question goes on the record in a way a hallway conversation does not. If the school will not enter you, ask NDHSAA directly what a student in your position may do; associations answer these, and the answer is the one that binds your school.
Train while you sort it out. A club room is where most girls in a state without a school team actually wrestle, and club season runs when the school season does not. The clubs in North Dakota are listed by city, with the girls' rooms and girls' practices flagged where the club says so.
Where it goes next
The state final is not the end of the line. These are the two places a North Dakota wrestler goes from here.
College in the state
4 colleges here sponsor women's wrestling, from the directory built off each school's own athletics staff page.
- JamestownNCAA D2
- Minot StateNCAA D2
- Bismarck State CollegeNAIA
- Dickinson State UniversityNAIA
Wrestlers from North Dakota
2 women in the record we keep grew up here. Their careers started in a room like the one down the road.
Before the season starts
A girl's legal minimum wrestling weight is built on the 19 percent body fat floor the NFHS sets for girls, not the boys' 7 percent. That is roughly sixteen pounds of difference for a fifteen year old, and every app built on the boys' number gets it wrong. How making weight works covers certification and what your state enforces at the scale, and when wrestling season starts has the year month by month and the first practice dates we have read off the associations' own pages.
This page was read on 2026-09-03, off NDHSAA's own pages and the NFHS participation survey, and parts of it were re-read since, most recently on 2026-09-22. Associations change rules in the spring and post the new ones late; the links here go to the page that will carry the change first.
Cite this data
Checked
Women's Wrestling Club, "North Dakota girls HS wrestling", https://womenswrestlingclub.com/high-school/nd, checked 2026-09-22.
Linking to it? The HTML:
<a href="https://womenswrestlingclub.com/high-school/nd">North Dakota girls HS wrestling</a>The newsletter
One email, sent when something is worth your time.
Get the free Girls' Wrestling College Recruiting Guide, plus athlete stories, results and the rules, all checked against the source. No filler, unsubscribe any time.