Dean Peterson Season 2025-26

2024-25 (at Rutgers)

• 2025 NCAA Championships Qualifier
• 2025 Big Ten Championships Sixth Place
• Closed season with 22 wins
• Big Ten Co-Wrestler of the Week (1/30)
• 2024 Midlands Champion (125 lbs)

2023-24 (at Rutgers)

• 2024 NCAA Championship Qualifier
• 2024 Big Ten Championships Fifth Place

2022-23 (at Rutgers)

• 2023 NCAA Championship Qualifier
• 2023 Big Ten Championships Seventh Place
• Produced team-best 25 victories

2021-22 (at Rutgers)

• Finished 2-2 wrestling unattached at 125 pounds

High School 

• Two-time NJSIAA state champion and three-time state finalist
• First state champion in school history
• Finished scholastic career with 72 consecutive victories, including individual state titles in 2019 and 2020
• State runner up as a freshman in 2018
• Had a 108-2 high school record
• Ranked as the No. 1 prospect at 126 pounds by Flowrestling 
• Beast of the East Title 
• Finished fifth at Super 32

Personal

• Born 10/22/2002
• Son of Anthony and Tracey Peterson
• Has three siblings; Jack, Shea, and Charlie
• Brother Charlie wrestled for Rider in 2019 and 2020