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Nebraska high school girls' wrestling
NSAA has crowned girls' state champions in Nebraska since 2022. 2,420 girls wrestled here in 2025-26, at 244 schools.
By Joe Spisak, Pennsylvania state champion and 4x NCAA qualifier at Virginia · Published September 3, 2026
The association
Sanctioned
- Association
- NSAA
- Girls' championship
- Yes, first held in 2022
- Format
- A separate girls' championship, its own event
- Source
- ketv.com, read 2026-09-03
What the record shows
The first NSAA girls state championships ran February 17 to 19, 2022 at the CHI Health Center in Omaha with 144 qualifiers. The NSAA wrestling manual never lists girls limits, saying only that host schools must use NFHS established weight classes, so the 14 class evidence is the NSAA's own Class A and Class B girls state brackets. The manual also states that unattached participation is not allowed in any NSAA wrestling competition. Weight classes re-read 2026-09-20: The 2026-27 NSAA Wrestling Manual (nsaa-static.s3.amazonaws.com/textfile/wrest/wrman.pdf, marked Pending Board Approval) never prints girls limits; it says entries go in the designated NFHS weight classes and raises the girls floor to 19 percent. The 2026 semifinal sheets are the newest NSAA document with the list. Girls state is February 16 to 17, 2027. Weight classes re-read 2026-09-22: no 2026-27 NSAA document names the girls classes. The 2026-27 Wrestling Manual at the same S3 URL (no longer marked Pending Board Approval) still says only "designated NFHS weight classes".
The 2026-27 Nebraska championship carries the dates, the venue, and the qualifying path.
How many girls wrestle in Nebraska
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 322 more girls than 2024-25, up 15.3 percent.
Weight classes
NSAA uses the NFHS 14 class girls' set. The NFHS offers three, and a state association picks one and cannot switch mid-season. That is the 2025-26 set. As of 2026-09-22 NSAA had not posted its 2026-27 classes; states re-pick among the three sets each year, so the season bulletin your coach has is the final word until it does.
- 100
- 105
- 110
- 115
- 120
- 125
- 130
- 135
- 140
- 145
- 155
- 170
- 190
- 235
Scratch weights, in pounds. The NFHS book lets 2 pounds be added to each class after certification as a growth allowance (4-4-4), and the NSAA decides whether and when it applies, so a bracket later in the season may read 2 pounds higher than this. Read off nsaahome.org on 2026-09-22. The weight classes page puts this beside the NCAA, NAIA and international weights.
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 NSAA decides whether and when it applies.
The NSAA sets when it applies; see its rules at nsaahome.org, 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 NSAA 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 NSAA weigh-in rules. Ask your coach for the season bulletin.
If she weighs in above her plan
We have not yet read the NSAA weigh-in rules. Ask your coach for the season bulletin.
What to do if your school has no girls' team
NSAA publishes a rule for this. NSAA bylaws let a girl wrestle on her school's boys team when her school offers no girls team, but the NSAA's own girls wrestling guidance says a girl in that situation may not enter the girls district or state tournaments. Schools may instead file a cooperative sponsorship agreement for girls wrestling, no more than four schools combining, by the October 1 winter sports deadline.
From nsaahome.org, 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 NSAA 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 Nebraska 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 Nebraska wrestler goes from here.
College in the state
7 colleges here sponsor women's wrestling, from the directory built off each school's own athletics staff page.
- Chadron StateNCAA D2
- Bellevue UniversityNAIA
- Doane UniversityNAIA
- Hastings CollegeNAIA
- Midland UniversityNAIA
- York UniversityNAIA
- Southeast Community CollegeNJCAA/JUCO
Wrestlers from Nebraska
No wrestler in the record names Nebraska as home yet. The roster grows every week, and it is the same sport in every room.
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 NSAA'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, "Nebraska girls HS wrestling", https://womenswrestlingclub.com/high-school/ne, checked 2026-09-22.
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