Ben Kueter Season 2026-27

2025-26

• Recorded a 14-9 overall record and a 5-5 dual mark
• Went 3-5 against ranked opponents
• Placed fourth at the Big Ten Championships
• Finished fifth at the NCAA Championships
• Scored 15 dual points

2024-25

• 21-9 record at 285
• 9-5 dual record
• Scored 36 dual team points
• Eighth place at NCAA Championships
• Third place at Big Ten Championships
• Seven bonus point victories including three major decisions, two technical falls, and two pins
• Recorded ten wins over ranked opponents
• Champion at the Soldier Salute

Hawk Item

• Won Under-20 World Wrestling Championship in July, 2022
• Won USA Wrestling’s Under-20 men’s freestyle world team trials in 2022 and 2024
• Spent one season at linebacker on the Iowa football roster (2023)

2023-24

• Finished 3-1 wrestling attached (redshirt season)
• 2-1 record against ranked opponents; lone defeat came against #1 Greg Kervliet (Penn State) and won by decision against #29 Bennet Tabor (Minnesota) and #11 Konner Doucet (Oklahoma State)
• Pinned Jack Jessen (Northwestern) in 45 seconds

 

High School Honors

• Freestyle Junior World Champion at 97 kg
• Freestyle Under-20 Pan American Champion at 97 kg
• Named USA TODAY Boys Wrestler of the Year for 2022-23
• Named USA TODAY All-Iowa Male Athlete of the Year for 2021-22
• 2023 Iowa Class 3A Dan Gable Mr. Wrestler of the Year
• 2023 Bob Steenlage Iowa High School Wrestler of the Year
• Fifth Iowa high-schooler to win a Junior world wrestling title and the fourth from Iowa City High
• Four-time undefeated state champion; seventh in the history of Iowa high school wrestling
• 111-0 high school record
• 74 career pins and 105 career bonus-point wins
• Competed in four sports at City High; Butkus Award finalist for the nation’s top high school linebacker

Personal

• Born June 7, 2004
• Sport and recreation management major
• Parents are Tina and Scott Kueter

	Overall	Dual	Big Ten Dual	Dual Pts.	Big Ten	NCAA	OT	MD	TF	Pins	Fastest
Year	Record	Record	Record	Scored	Place	Place	W/L	W/L	W/L	W/L	Pin
2023-24	3-1	3-1	2-1	12	—	—	—	0-1	—	1-0	0:45
2024-25	21-9	9-5	5-3	36	3rd	8th	—	3-2	2-2	2-1	0:32
2025-26	14-9	5-5	3-4	15	4th	5th	3-0	0-1	—	—	—
Career	38-19	17-11	10-8	63	3rd	8th	3-0	3-3	2-2	3-1	0:32