Mia Palumbo’s grandfather thought Jake Kadel was a flower delivery boy when he arrived at the family’s home in 2020. Palumbo’s brother, Rocco, died in a car in a car wreck on November 25 when the former Iowa Wesleyan coach showed up a few days later with a bouquet in hand.

The college season is underway and Iowa programs occupy five of the top 10 spots in the women’s college pound-for-pound rankings. William Penn’s Adaugo Nwachukwu retains her #1 spot while her teammate Mia Palumbo is #10.

Welcome to a new era of women’s wrestling in the United States.

William Penn scored one point at the 2023 NAIA Championships and had no All-Americans. This season, the Statesmen are in title contention.

There’s a new number one in the pound-for-pound women’s college rankings — and her name is Adaugo Nwachukwu.

Iowa Wesleyan closed the entire university and wrestling coach Jake Kadel didn’t see it coming.

This is starting to get good.

The 2023 Grand View Open featured some of the best women's freestyle competitors in the country with conference and national tournaments on the horizon. Get full results below and hear from several of the top wrestlers in attendance.

Below are the second pound-for-pound rankings of the women’s collegiate wrestling season, which includes all divisions. Off-season results from the past year factored into the rankings but the most recent college results — especially the Missouri Valley Open — weighed heaviest.

Below are the first pound-for-pound rankings of the women’s collegiate wrestling season, which includes all divisions. Off-season results from the past year factored into the rankings since women’s college wrestling uses freestyle rules.

Double Fargo champ Mia Palumbo joins the show to make her college commitment and talk about her wrestling career.

Where does one go to find competitors for Who's #1? Our guy Kyle Bratke crunched the numbers on historical WNO wrestlers and the states from whence the came. To get a better idea of the class of 2020, let's take a deeper dive into everyone's hometowns and throw up some keen looking maps in the process. 

The current #1 ranked 106 lb high school girl in the country, and one of the best pound-for-pound, Mia Palumbo, has released the top four colleges on her school list.

Who's #1 continues to add to its star-studded slate. The most recent addition is a match between Mia Palumbo and Sage Mortimer, to be contested at 112 pounds.