Drake Ayala
NCAA championship record, 2022–2026. Regular-season results are not included.
Drake Ayala wrestled for Iowa at four NCAA championships, 2022–2026, and went 14–6. Ayala placed second at 125 lb in 2024, second at 133 lb in 2025 and fifth at 133 lb in 2026.
NCAA career
Every NCAA bout · 20
| Round | W/L | Opponent | Seed | Opp. seed | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 · 133 lb | |||||
| Round of 32 | W | Marcel Lopez · Southern Illinois Edwardsville | 6 | 27 | MD 11–1 |
| Round of 16 | W | Tyler Ferrara · Cornell (NY) | 6 | 11 | TF 19–4 |
| Quarterfinal | L | Marcus Blaze · Penn State | 6 | 3 | Dec 3–5 |
| Consolation round 4 | W | Maximilian Leete · American (DC) | 6 | 10 | Dec 8–3 |
| Consolation round 5 | W | Lucas Byrd · Illinois | 6 | 7 | Dec 10–4 |
| Consolation semifinal | L | Aaron Seidel · Virginia Tech | 6 | 4 | MD 0–11 |
| 5th-place bout | W | Tyler Knox · Stanford (CA) | 6 | 15 | MD 16–5 |
| 2025 · 133 lb | |||||
| Round of 32 | W | Kade Moore · Missouri | 2 | 31 | TF 21–5 |
| Round of 16 | W | Julian Farber · Northern Iowa | 2 | 18 | MD 13–4 |
| Quarterfinal | W | Nic Bouzakis · Ohio State | 2 | 7 | MD 23–10 |
| Semifinal | W | Zan Fugitt · Wisconsin | 2 | 14 | Dec 6–1 |
| Final | L | Lucas Byrd · Illinois | 2 | 1 | Dec (no score) |
| 2024 · 125 lb | |||||
| Round of 32 | W | Elijah Griffin · California Baptist | 3 | 30 | MD 10–2 |
| Round of 16 | W | Nico Provo · Stanford (CA) | 3 | 14 | TF 19–4 |
| Quarterfinal | W | Troy Spratley · Oklahoma State | 3 | 6 | Dec 4–1 |
| Semifinal | W | Eric Barnett · Wisconsin | 3 | 10 | Dec 3–2 |
| Final | L | Richie Figueroa II · Arizona State | 3 | 8 | Dec 2–7 |
| 2022 · 125 lb | |||||
| Round of 32 | L | Fabian Gutierrez · Tennessee-Chattanooga | 13 | 20 | Dec 9–12 |
| Consolation round 1 | W | Joe Manchio · Columbia (NY) | 13 | 29 | Dec 7–1 |
| Consolation round 2 | L | Jakob Camacho · North Carolina State | 13 | 14 | Dec 5–8 |
Scoring · 2022 to 2026
The sums over the bouts in scope.
| Opponent | Round | Result | Score | Mat time | TD | E | R | NF | Stall | RT | Pts | Sheet | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| F | A | F | A | F | A | F | A | D | C | F | A | F | A | ||||||
| 2026 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Marcel Lopez · Southern Illinois Edwardsville | Round of 32 | W Major decision | 11–1 | 7:00 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 1 | Sheet |
| Tyler Ferrara · Cornell (NY) | Round of 16 | W Technical fall | 19–4 | 6:37 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 19 | 4 | Sheet |
| Marcus Blaze · Penn State | Quarterfinal | L Decision | 3–5 | 7:00 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 5 | Sheet |
| Maximilian Leete · American (DC) | Consolation round 4 | W Decision | 8–3 | 7:00 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 3 | Sheet |
| Lucas Byrd · Illinois | Consolation round 5 | W Decision | 10–4 | 7:00 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 4 | Sheet |
| Aaron Seidel · Virginia Tech | Consolation semifinal | L Major decision | 0–11 | 7:00 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 11 | Sheet |
| Tyler Knox · Stanford (CA) | 5th-place bout | W Major decision | 16–5 | 7:00 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 16 | 5 | Sheet |
| 2025 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Kade Moore · Missouri | Round of 32 | W Technical fall | 21–5 | 5:30 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 21 | 5 | Sheet |
| Julian Farber · Northern Iowa | Round of 16 | W Major decision | 13–4 | 7:00 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 13 | 4 | Sheet |
| Nic Bouzakis · Ohio State | Quarterfinal | W Major decision | 23–10 | 7:00 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 23 | 10 | Sheet |
| Zan Fugitt · Wisconsin | Semifinal | W Decision | 6–1 | 7:00 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 | Sheet |
| Lucas Byrd · Illinois | Final | L Decision | – | 10:00 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | Sheet |
| 2024 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Elijah Griffin · California Baptist | Round of 32 | W Major decision | 10–2 | 7:00 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 2 | Sheet |
| Nico Provo · Stanford (CA) | Round of 16 | W Technical fall | 19–4 | 5:19 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 4 | Sheet |
| Troy Spratley · Oklahoma State | Quarterfinal | W Decision | 4–1 | 8:07 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | Sheet |
| Eric Barnett · Wisconsin | Semifinal | W Decision | 3–2 | 7:00 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | Sheet |
| Richie Figueroa II · Arizona State | Final | L Decision | 2–7 | 7:00 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 7 | Sheet |
| 2022 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Fabian Gutierrez · Tennessee-Chattanooga | Round of 32 | L Decision | 9–12 | 7:00 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 12 | Sheet |
| Joe Manchio · Columbia (NY) | Consolation round 1 | W Decision | 7–1 | 7:00 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 1 | Sheet |
| Jakob Camacho · North Carolina State | Consolation round 2 | L Decision | 5–8 | 7:00 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 8 | Sheet |
TD takedowns · E escapes · R reversals · NF near-fall points · Stall stalling drawn / called · RT riding-time points · Pts points; F for, A against.
How these are counted
Every figure here is counted from the scoring record, bout by bout, from the counts on each scoring sheet.
A bout counts once for each side: a wrestler's for columns are their own counts and the against columns are the opponent's; a team's are the sums over its qualifiers' bouts that year.
- Takedowns
- For: takedowns scored. Against: takedowns allowed.
- Escapes
- For: escapes. Against: escapes allowed.
- Reversals
- For: reversals. Against: reversals allowed.
- Near-fall points
- For: near-fall points. Against: near-fall points allowed.
- Stalling calls
- For: drawn, the stalling calls against the opponent. Against: called, the stalling calls against this side.
- Riding-time points
- For: riding-time points. Against: riding-time points allowed.
- Points
- For: points scored. Against: points allowed.
Points is the sum of every scoring row credited to that side, penalties and riding time included; points allowed is the opponent's sum. Cautions, penalty points and the tiebreak riding-time rows are carried in the data and shown on the bout page, not in these tables.
Statistics include only bouts whose scoring sheet is reconciled: the sheet's rows add up to every printed period total and to the scoreboard. A sheet that does not reconcile, and a bout with no wrestling, are left out, and the scoring record's hub says how many and why.
The scoring record begins in 2012, the first championship with full bout-level data: every bout's scoring sheet, not only its result. Earlier championships have their brackets and results in the record, but not their scoring sheets.
Totals are the sums over the bouts in scope. Per qualifier divides the totals by the record's qualifier count for that program and year, the same count the program page prints (team rows only). Per bout divides the totals by the bouts in scope. Per 7 min is the totals times 420 divided by the sum of the mat time, in seconds, over the bouts in scope: one pooled rate, never a mean of per-bout rates. A bout with no mat time is left out of both the numerator and the denominator of that unit, and the page says how many are left out.
Rates list wrestlers with three or more bouts; a wrestler with fewer is left out of the per-bout and per-7-minute lists.
Cite this page: “Drake Ayala”, March Matness, NCAA Division I championship record, release affad6e7. https://www.marchmatness.app/wrestlers/wr_ioejqnxfme6hd2jf/drake-ayala