Josh Barr
NCAA championship record, 2025–2026. Regular-season results are not included.
Josh Barr wrestled for Penn State at two NCAA championships, 2025–2026, and went 9–1. Barr won the title at 197 lb in 2026 and placed second at 197 lb in 2025.
NCAA career
| Year | School | Weight | Seed | Finish | W–L | Matches |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Penn State | 197 | 1 | 1st | 5–0 | 5 bouts |
| 2025 | Penn State | 197 | 4 | 2nd | 4–1 | 5 bouts |
Every NCAA bout · 10
| Round | W/L | Opponent | Seed | Opp. seed | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 · 197 lb | |||||
| Round of 32 | W | Blake Schaffer · Kent State (OH) | 1 | 32 | TF 20–4 |
| Round of 16 | W | Dillon Bechtold · Bucknell (PA) | 1 | 17 | MD 11–3 |
| Quarterfinal | W | Angelo Posada · Stanford (CA) | 1 | 9 | TF 19–3 |
| Semifinal | W | Joey Novak · Wyoming | 1 | 5 | MD 14–3 |
| Final | W | Cody Merrill · Oklahoma State | 1 | 7 | Dec 6–3 |
| 2025 · 197 lb | |||||
| Round of 32 | W | Tucker Hogan · Lock Haven (PA) | 4 | 29 | MD 9–1 |
| Round of 16 | W | Trenton 'Trey' Munoz · Oregon State | 4 | 13 | Dec 5–2 |
| Quarterfinal | W | Michael Beard · Lehigh (PA) | 4 | 5 | MD 14–3 |
| Semifinal | W | Jacob Cardenas · Michigan | 4 | 1 | Dec 5–3 |
| Final | L | Stephen Buchanan · Iowa | 4 | 2 | Dec 2–5 |
Scoring · 2025 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 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Blake Schaffer · Kent State (OH) | Round of 32 | W Technical fall | 20–4 | 5:43 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 4 | Sheet |
| Dillon Bechtold · Bucknell (PA) | Round of 16 | W Major decision | 11–3 | 7:00 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 3 | Sheet |
| Angelo Posada · Stanford (CA) | Quarterfinal | W Technical fall | 19–3 | 4:51 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 3 | Sheet |
| Joey Novak · Wyoming | Semifinal | W Major decision | 14–3 | 7:00 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 14 | 3 | Sheet |
| Cody Merrill · Oklahoma State | Final | W Decision | 6–3 | 7:00 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 3 | Sheet |
| 2025 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Tucker Hogan · Lock Haven (PA) | Round of 32 | W Major decision | 9–1 | 7:00 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 1 | Sheet |
| Trenton 'Trey' Munoz · Oregon State | Round of 16 | W Decision | 5–2 | 8:00 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | Sheet |
| Michael Beard · Lehigh (PA) | Quarterfinal | W Major decision | 14–3 | 7:00 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 14 | 3 | Sheet |
| Jacob Cardenas · Michigan | Semifinal | W Decision | 5–3 | 7:00 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 3 | Sheet |
| Stephen Buchanan · Iowa | Final | L Decision | 2–5 | 7:00 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 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: “Josh Barr”, March Matness, NCAA Division I championship record, release affad6e7. https://www.marchmatness.app/wrestlers/wr_ivf27otvzrbzlv6l/josh-barr