Who's Number One is returning to Wrestletown, USA! On October 11 in Xtream Arena in Coralville, Iowa, the best high school wrestlers in the country will face off to determine who can claim the top national ranking headed into the 2025-26 season!

Below are the girls' matchups for this year's event, which is already proving to be the most elite yet! We'll add every new matchup in this article as they are announced. Stay tuned for the entire slate! 

120 Pounds: Everest Leydecker vs Epenesa Elison

The first-announced matchup for the girls' bouts at 2025's Who's Number One is also the headliner, and for good reason! 

Everest Leydecker is ranked #1 at 120lbs. The rising senior at Phoenix, Arizona high school powerhouse Valiant Prep turns 18 this September and recently capped off an outstanding season of wrestling with a gold medal at the 2025 U20 World Championships. 

Epenesa Elison was ranked #1 at 115lbs, but the rising sophomore from Southern California is moving up a weight class in search of a new challenge. The Monster Garage pupil recently reached the finals of the 2025 U17 World Championships under the tutelage of club coach Ruben Valencia. 

Additionally, both Leydecker and Elison have represented the United States at multiple age-level Pan-American Championships, bringing home gold medals on every occasion. They are also both WNO alumnae. Elison won her first bout last year, while Leydecker is on a three-match WNO winning spree, looking to become the first-ever female four-time winner and only second-ever four-time winner in WNO history.

Watch Leydecker win gold in Bulgaria this summer:

Watch Elison put on a takedown clinic to make the 2025 U17 World Team:

Epenesa Elison used five takedowns for a 10-0 win in her second match to make the 53 kg U17 World team. pic.twitter.com/1NBMcyF5je

— FloWrestling (@FloWrestling) April 5, 2025

It's a matchup for the Who's Number One history books, and it's going down Saturday, October 11th in the Xtream Arena. Don't miss it!

105 Pounds: Jaclyn Bouzakis vs Hailey Delgado

A matchup so nice we have to see it twice! Jaclyn Bouzakis and Hailey Delgado are running it back for the second straight Who's Number One! This time, the familiar foes will be facing off at 105lbs for the first time. 

Both wrestlers have a trophy case full of accolades already in their careers. Bouzakis, a student at high school powerhouse Wyoming Seminary, has two U17 world bronze medals to her name, the second coming just weeks ago in Athens. 

Delgado has a 2024 U17 Pan-Am silver medal and a 2023 U15 Pan-Am gold. Delgaado, a native of El Paso Texas, is also a 2025 Fargo champ, as is Bouzakis. 

Watch Bouzakis and Delgado's 2024 WNO bout: 

145 Pounds: Violette Lasure vs Eve Skrocki

Local Iowan Eve Skrocki is taking on Golden Ticket recipient Violette Lasure to determine the number one ranking in the nation at 145 pounds. 

Skrocki, who trains at the Big Game Wrestling Club in North Liberty -- just a short drive away from the Xtream Arena -- has had a busy and successful summer. Skrocki won the Girls High School Showcase at the 2025 U.S. Open at the end of April, then competed at Fargo in the 16U division, collecting a stop sign as she topped the podium at 145 pounds. 

Pennsylvania native Violette Lasure was also busy this season, as she earned and defended her number one rankings throughout the year. Lasure has won every domestic tournament she entered, starting with the Fargo in 2024. She picked up her second stop sign last July, adding a Junior championship in 2025 to her 2024 16U title. Lasure also won the U17 World Team Trials at women's nationals at 65kg, punching her ticket to Athens where she finished ninth at the World Championships. 

We'll find out very soon if Skrocki will use her home mat advantage to unseat the reigning number one!

Watch Lasure win a Fargo title: 

125 Pounds: Emma Bacon vs Caley Graber

Emma Bacon has been knocking on the national ranking since she was in middle school. A stellar 12 months finally put her in pole position at 125 pounds, having won the U17 World Team Trials at 57 kilograms, the Girls High School Showcase at 125 pounds, and Junior Nationals in Fargo, also at 125 pounds. 

The Pennsylvania native also picked up a U17 Pan-Am gold medal in July. She'll defend her number one ranking against Minnesota's Caley Graber, who is moving up from 120 to take on one of her toughest challenges to date. 

Like Bacon, Graber has had a fantastic past 12 months. She won a folkstyle national championship in March, then won a Fargo stop sign in July. Both of those brackets were at 120 pounds, although Graber was up at 125 when she won a Northern Plains regional title in May of this year. 

135 Pounds: Taina Fernandez vs Morgan Lucio

They don't come much more credentialed than Taina Fernandez, a Maryland native who is already a two-time U17 World Champion. The junior at Archbishop Spalding still has another year of U17 eligibility left. 

Fernandez's third Who's Number One bout will be a rematch of the semifinals at Junior Nationals, where she defeated Morgan Lucio. Lucio is starting her senior year at high school powerhouse Valiant Prep in Phoenix, Arizona. Lucio was a Fargo champ in 2023 in the 16U division and a placer the last two summers in the Junior brackets. 

Fernandez has been nigh invincible the last few years, especially domestically. Last summer, she blitzed her way to both the 16U and Junior national championships in Fargo. Though Lucio has proven herself to be the top challenger in the country at 135lbs, she'll have her hands full in another bout with one of the pound-for-pound top high school wrestlers in the world. 

100 Pounds: Ryleigh Sturgill vs Bella Manno

With two-time World bronze medalist Jaclyn Bouzakis moving up to 105lbs and other graduations, 2025 16U Fargo Champ Ryleigh Sturgill moves up from #6 to #1 in the national high school rankings at 100lbs. That also moves the former #7 Bella Manno, the 2025 U15 Pan-Am champ, up to #2 and makes her the top challenger to the mantle of 'Number One'.  

New Jersey native will be one of the youngest wrestlers at Who's Number One, but that hasn't stopped her from gathering a heap of medals already. Besides making the U15 team and winning Pan-Am gold, Manno has two age-level Northeast Regional titles and a medal at the Journeymen Fall Classic. 

Tennessee native, Stugill, meanwhile, has multiple Southeast Regional titles and a fourth-place finish at Fargo in 2024 to go with her 2025 stop sign. This matchup will be at 100lbs, the lightest division at 2025's Who's Number One. 

110 Pounds: Sophia Marie Gonzales vs Kayla Batres

The Gonzaleses are officially a multi-athlete Who's Number One family, as Sophia Marie will be wrestling at the event in 2025 like her sister, Isabella Marie, did in 2024. 

Gonzales' opponent at 110 pounds will be Kayla Batres of Connecticut. Batres won a loaded bracket this summer at Junior Nationals in Fargo. She also placed at the prestigious Girls High School Showcase at the US Open in April. 

Gonzales was also at the Showcase, where she battled to the top of the podium, which helped her earn her current #1 ranking. We didn't get to see a matchup between Batres and Gonzales at the Showcase or anywhere else yet, but we'll all get to see the bout at Who's Number One!

130 Pounds: Taina McGowan vs Landri Vongonten

Two Fargo champs will collide at Who's Number One at 130-pounds, as Junior national champ Taina McGowan makes her second WNO appearance, where she will defend her number one ranking from 16U national champion Landri Vongonten. 

McGowan will look to improve on her 2024 performance that saw her fall to then #1 Aubre Krazer on the campus of the University of Pittsburgh-Johnstown. She'll be the favorite in Coralville, Iowa. McGowan, a New Jersey native and sister to 2022 Who's Number One participant Marc-Anthony, has earned the top spot in the national rankings. 

Challenging McGowan is Texas native Landri Vongonten, who earned her #2 ranking thanks to a runner-up performance at the U17 World Team Trials and her title-winning performance at Junior Nationals. 

170 Pounds: Autumn Elsbury vs Kaili Manuel

Number one Kaili Manuel is putting her top spot on the line in Coralville! Local Iowan Autumn Elsbury will try to keep the momentum going from an excellent summer and claim the #1 ranking on October 11th!

Manuel comes from a family of wrestlers from Romeo, Michigan, with multiple sisters who have made regular appearances in the national rankings. Elsbury is from South Tama County, not far from Coralville and Iowa City. Manuel is a 16U national champion in Fargo, ND this summer, while Elsbury was a runner-up in the Junior division. 

The two highest-ranked 170-pounders are going head-to-head on October 11 to decide Who's Number One!

140 Pounds: Riley Hanrahan vs Nora Akpan

A Fargo rematch is on the docket for 140 Pounds at Who's Number One! Junior national champ Nora Akpan will try to defeat U17 World Team Trials runner-up Riley Hanrahan for second time since July. However, this time the top spot in the national rankings is on the line!

Hanrahan notched several big wins at the team trials in April of 2025, but it was Akpan who wouldn't be denied in North Dakota, running the gauntlet and picking up a stop sign along the way. 

Both competitors hail from the Midwest, as Akpan is from Minnesota and trains at the Pinnacle Wrestling School, while Hanrahan is from Wisconsin and is a pupil of the Team Nazar Training Center. 

115 Pounds: Taylor Whiting vs Reagan Mathers

Taylor Whiting will attempt to reclaim a number one ranking in Coralville as newly minted Fargo champ Reagan Mathers toes the line to try and stop her. With Epenesa Elison moving up to 120, the top spot at 115 is Whiting's for the taking, as she returns to Who's Number One after a victorious appearance in 2024.

But it won't be easy for the Wisconsinite and Team Nazar Training Whiting. Mathers, who hails from Phoenix, Arizona, attends Valiant Prep, one of the strongest high school programs in the nation. Mathers also navigated deep field in Fargo to win a 16U national title to shoot up the rankings, setting up a matchup with an established competitor like Whiting. 

155 Pounds: Ella Poalillo vs Janiya Johnson

World teamer and Fargo champ will face off at 155-pounds at Who’s Number One! #1 Ella Poalillo, a 73kg U17 bronze medalist, will defend her ranking against #2 Janiya Johnson, a two-time Fargo champ and WNO alum.

Poalillo, a resident of New Jersey, has held down the top spot at 155 pounds for most of the year and has been steadily climbing up the pound-for-pound rankings as well. The junior at High Point Regional also scored a Pan-Am gold medal this summer. 

Tennessee native Janiya Johnson is looking to reclaim the top spot, which she secured last year after her Who's Number One win over Sarah Pulk. A junior at Kirkwood High School, Johnsonn just missed out on making the 2025 U17 World Team but showed her resilience by bouncing back and winning the High School Showcase at the US Open and Junior Nationals over the summer. 

We'll see whether Johnson regains the 155-pound throne or if Poalillo defends her crown on Saturday, October 11!