Stephen Little
NCAA championship record, 2024–2026. Regular-season results are not included.
Stephen Little wrestled for Arkansas-Little Rock at three NCAA championships, 2024–2026, and went 15–6. Little placed seventh at 197 lb in 2024, sixth at 197 lb in 2025 and third at 197 lb in 2026.
NCAA career
| Year | School | Weight | Seed | Finish | W–L | Matches |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Arkansas-Little Rock | 197 | 3 | 3rd | 5–1 | 6 bouts |
| 2025 | Arkansas-Little Rock | 197 | 12 | 6th | 5–3 | 8 bouts |
| 2024 | Arkansas-Little Rock | 197 | 9 | 7th | 5–2 | 7 bouts |
Every NCAA bout · 21
| Round | W/L | Opponent | Seed | Opp. seed | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 · 197 lb | |||||
| Round of 32 | W | Kade Rule · Tennessee-Chattanooga | 3 | 30 | Dec 10–3 |
| Round of 16 | W | Zayne Lehman · Ohio | 3 | 19 | Dec 7–1 |
| Quarterfinal | W | Camden McDanel · Nebraska | 3 | 11 | Dec 4–1 |
| Semifinal | L | Cody Merrill · Oklahoma State | 3 | 7 | Dec 2–2 (tiebreaker) |
| Consolation semifinal | W | Angelo Posada · Stanford (CA) | 3 | 9 | MD 14–4 |
| 3rd-place bout | W | Joey Novak · Wyoming | 3 | 5 | Dec 7–4 |
| 2025 · 197 lb | |||||
| Round of 32 | W | Levi Hopkins · Campbell (NC) | 12 | 21 | Dec 10–6 |
| Round of 16 | L | Michael Beard · Lehigh (PA) | 12 | 5 | Dec 1–4 |
| Consolation round 2 | W | Mikey Dellagatta · Cornell (NY) | 12 | 27 | MD 16–5 |
| Consolation round 3 | W | Trenton 'Trey' Munoz · Oregon State | 12 | 13 | Dec 4–2 |
| Consolation round 4 | W | Seth Shumate · Ohio State | 12 | 23 | TF 15–0 |
| Consolation round 5 | W | Mac Stout · Pittsburgh (PA) | 12 | 6 | Dec 4–1 |
| Consolation semifinal | L | Jacob Cardenas · Michigan | 12 | 1 | Dec 2–5 |
| 5th-place bout | L | Joey Novak · Wyoming | 12 | 15 | MD 0–8 |
| 2024 · 197 lb | |||||
| Round of 32 | W | Cole Urbas · Pennsylvania | 9 | 24 | TF 22–3 |
| Round of 16 | L | Stephen Buchanan · Oklahoma | 9 | 8 | MD 3–14 |
| Consolation round 2 | W | Zach Glazier · Iowa | 9 | 7 | Dec 4–1 |
| Consolation round 3 | W | Joey Novak · Wyoming | 9 | 17 | MD 13–5 |
| Consolation round 4 | W | Lou Deprez · Binghamton (NY) | 9 | 6 | Dec 5–2 |
| Consolation round 5 | L | Jacob Cardenas · Cornell (NY) | 9 | 5 | Fall 1:11 |
| 7th-place bout | W | Michael Beard · Lehigh (PA) | 9 | 4 | Dec 10–3 |
Scoring · 2024 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 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Kade Rule · Tennessee-Chattanooga | Round of 32 | W Decision | 10–3 | 7:00 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 3 | Sheet |
| Zayne Lehman · Ohio | Round of 16 | W Decision | 7–1 | 7:00 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 1 | Sheet |
| Camden McDanel · Nebraska | Quarterfinal | W Decision | 4–1 | 7:22 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | Sheet |
| Cody Merrill · Oklahoma State | Semifinal | L Decision | 2–2 | 10:00 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | Sheet |
| Angelo Posada · Stanford (CA) | Consolation semifinal | W Major decision | 14–4 | 7:00 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 14 | 4 | Sheet |
| Joey Novak · Wyoming | 3rd-place bout | W Decision | 7–4 | 7:00 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 4 | Sheet |
| 2025 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Levi Hopkins · Campbell (NC) | Round of 32 | W Decision | 10–6 | 7:00 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 6 | Sheet |
| Michael Beard · Lehigh (PA) | Round of 16 | L Decision | 1–4 | 7:00 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | Sheet |
| Mikey Dellagatta · Cornell (NY) | Consolation round 2 | W Major decision | 16–5 | 7:00 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 16 | 5 | Sheet |
| Trenton 'Trey' Munoz · Oregon State | Consolation round 3 | W Decision | 4–2 | 7:00 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | Sheet |
| Seth Shumate · Ohio State | Consolation round 4 | W Technical fall | 15–0 | 6:20 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 15 | 0 | Sheet |
| Mac Stout · Pittsburgh (PA) | Consolation round 5 | W Decision | 4–1 | 7:27 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | Sheet |
| Jacob Cardenas · Michigan | Consolation semifinal | L Decision | 2–5 | 7:00 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 5 | Sheet |
| Joey Novak · Wyoming | 5th-place bout | L Major decision | 0–8 | 7:00 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 8 | Sheet |
| 2024 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Cole Urbas · Pennsylvania | Round of 32 | W Technical fall | 22–3 | 4:28 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 22 | 3 | Sheet |
| Stephen Buchanan · Oklahoma | Round of 16 | L Major decision | 3–14 | 7:00 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 14 | Sheet |
| Zach Glazier · Iowa | Consolation round 2 | W Decision | 4–1 | 7:23 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | Sheet |
| Joey Novak · Wyoming | Consolation round 3 | W Major decision | 13–5 | 7:00 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 5 | Sheet |
| Lou Deprez · Binghamton (NY) | Consolation round 4 | W Decision | 5–2 | 7:44 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | Sheet |
| Jacob Cardenas · Cornell (NY) | Consolation round 5 | L Fall | – | 1:11 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | Sheet |
| Michael Beard · Lehigh (PA) | 7th-place bout | W Decision | 10–3 | 7:00 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 3 | 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 Little”, March Matness, NCAA Division I championship record, release affad6e7. https://www.marchmatness.app/wrestlers/wr_trz4iwcmleyagn5l/stephen-little