Stephen Buchanan
NCAA championship record, 2021–2025. Regular-season results are not included.
Stephen Buchanan wrestled for Wyoming, Oklahoma and Iowa at four NCAA championships, 2021–2025, and went 19–5. Buchanan won the title at 197 lb in 2025 and placed eighth at 197 lb in 2021, and third at 197 lb in 2022 and 2024.
NCAA career
Every NCAA bout · 24
| Round | W/L | Opponent | Seed | Opp. seed | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 · 197 lb | |||||
| Round of 32 | W | Remy Cotton · Michigan State | 2 | 31 | MD 22–9 |
| Round of 16 | W | Joey Novak · Wyoming | 2 | 15 | TF 16–1 |
| Quarterfinal | W | Seth Shumate · Ohio State | 2 | 23 | TF 18–3 |
| Semifinal | W | AJ Ferrari Jr. · California-Bakersfield | 2 | 3 | Dec 3–0 |
| Final | W | Josh Barr · Penn State | 2 | 4 | Dec 5–2 |
| 2024 · 197 lb | |||||
| Round of 32 | W | Ben Smith · Cleveland State (OH) | 8 | 25 | TF 18–1 |
| Round of 16 | W | Stephen Little · Arkansas-Little Rock | 8 | 9 | MD 14–3 |
| Quarterfinal | L | Aaron Brooks · Penn State | 8 | 1 | Fall 2:45 |
| Consolation round 4 | W | John Poznanski · Rutgers (NJ) | 8 | 14 | Dec 2–1 |
| Consolation round 5 | W | Michael Beard · Lehigh (PA) | 8 | 4 | MD 12–1 |
| Consolation semifinal | W | Tanner Sloan · South Dakota State | 8 | 3 | Dec 6–2 |
| 3rd-place bout | W | Jacob Cardenas · Cornell (NY) | 8 | 5 | Dec 9–4 |
| 2022 · 197 lb | |||||
| Round of 32 | W | JT Brown · Army (NY) | 2 | 31 | Dec 2–0 |
| Round of 16 | W | Luke Stout · Princeton (NJ) | 2 | 18 | Dec 6–3 |
| Quarterfinal | W | Rocky Elam · Missouri | 2 | 7 | Dec 4–0 |
| Semifinal | L | Jacob Warner · Iowa | 2 | 6 | Dec 4–6 |
| Consolation semifinal | W | Yonger Bastida · Iowa State | 2 | 10 | Dec 4–3 |
| 3rd-place bout | W | Rocky Elam · Missouri | 2 | 7 | Dec 1–0 |
| 2021 · 197 lb | |||||
| Round of 32 | W | JJ Dixon · Oregon State | 8 | 25 | Fall 3:34 |
| Round of 16 | W | Noah Adams · West Virginia | 8 | 9 | Fall 1:59 |
| Quarterfinal | L | Myles Amine · Michigan | 8 | 1 | Dec 6–7 |
| Consolation round 4 | W | Thomas Penola · Purdue (IN) | 8 | 19 | Dec 6–2 |
| Consolation round 5 | L | Jacob Warner · Iowa | 8 | 5 | Dec 3–6 |
| 7th-place bout | L | Michael Beard · Penn State | 8 | 15 | Dec 8–10 |
Scoring · 2021 to 2025
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 | ||||||
| 2025 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Remy Cotton · Michigan State | Round of 32 | W Major decision | 22–9 | 7:00 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 22 | 9 | Sheet |
| Joey Novak · Wyoming | Round of 16 | W Technical fall | 16–1 | 6:57 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 16 | 1 | Sheet |
| Seth Shumate · Ohio State | Quarterfinal | W Technical fall | 18–3 | 6:35 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 3 | Sheet |
| AJ Ferrari Jr. · California-Bakersfield | Semifinal | W Decision | 3–0 | 7:00 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | Sheet |
| Josh Barr · Penn State | Final | W Decision | 5–2 | 7:00 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 2 | Sheet |
| 2024 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Ben Smith · Cleveland State (OH) | Round of 32 | W Technical fall | 18–1 | 5:14 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 1 | Sheet |
| Stephen Little · Arkansas-Little Rock | Round of 16 | W Major decision | 14–3 | 7:00 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 14 | 3 | Sheet |
| Aaron Brooks · Penn State | Quarterfinal | L Fall | – | 2:45 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6 | Sheet |
| John Poznanski · Rutgers (NJ) | Consolation round 4 | W Decision | 2–1 | 10:00 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | Sheet |
| Michael Beard · Lehigh (PA) | Consolation round 5 | W Major decision | 12–1 | 7:00 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 12 | 1 | Sheet |
| Tanner Sloan · South Dakota State | Consolation semifinal | W Decision | 6–2 | 7:00 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 2 | Sheet |
| Jacob Cardenas · Cornell (NY) | 3rd-place bout | W Decision | 9–4 | 7:00 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 4 | Sheet |
| 2022 | |||||||||||||||||||
| JT Brown · Army (NY) | Round of 32 | W Decision | 2–0 | 7:00 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | Sheet |
| Luke Stout · Princeton (NJ) | Round of 16 | W Decision | 6–3 | 7:00 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 3 | Sheet |
| Rocky Elam · Missouri | Quarterfinal | W Decision | 4–0 | 7:00 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | Sheet |
| Jacob Warner · Iowa | Semifinal | L Decision | 4–6 | 7:00 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 6 | Sheet |
| Yonger Bastida · Iowa State | Consolation semifinal | W Decision | 4–3 | 7:00 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 3 | Sheet |
| Rocky Elam · Missouri | 3rd-place bout | W Decision | 1–0 | 7:00 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | Sheet |
| 2021 | |||||||||||||||||||
| JJ Dixon · Oregon State | Round of 32 | W Fall | – | 3:34 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | Sheet |
| Noah Adams · West Virginia | Round of 16 | W Fall | – | 1:59 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | Sheet |
| Myles Amine · Michigan | Quarterfinal | L Decision | 6–7 | 7:00 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 7 | Sheet |
| Thomas Penola · Purdue (IN) | Consolation round 4 | W Decision | 6–2 | 7:00 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 2 | Sheet |
| Jacob Warner · Iowa | Consolation round 5 | L Decision | 3–6 | 7:00 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 6 | Sheet |
| Michael Beard · Penn State | 7th-place bout | L Decision | 8–10 | 7:22 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 10 | 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: “Stephen Buchanan”, March Matness, NCAA Division I championship record, release affad6e7. https://www.marchmatness.app/wrestlers/wr_seli42vrlehxk533/stephen-buchanan