PIAA Wrestling Individual Champions
The Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association (PIAA) has crowned individual champions in wrestling since 1938. Each classification weight class champion and additional student-athletes from the Western Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic League (WPIAL) have qualified for the PIAA Championships since its inception, with PIAA District VII claiming a total of 432 individual state champions in the sport. The only year that the WPIAL has not produce a PIAA individual champion was in 1966.
Below you will find links to each champion(s) by decade, as well as a list of the 27 WPIAL student-athletes who won three or more PIAA individual wrestling titles. Wrestlers in italics have captured four PIAA individual wrestling titles.
2020-present | 2010-19 | 2000-09 | 1990-99 | 1980-89 | 1970-79 | 1960-69 | 1950-59 | 1940-49 | 1938-39
To view the list of PIAA team champions from the WPIAL, please click here: LINK
| Champion | School(s) | Years | Wt. Classes |
| Rune Lawrence | Frazier | 2021-2023 | 172, 172, 189 |
| Vincent Kilkeary | Greater Latrobe | 2020, 2022-2023 | 106, 120, 127 |
| Dayton Pitzer | Mt. Pleasant | 2019, 2021-2022 | 182, 215, 215 |
| Alejandro Herrera-Rondon | Seneca Valley | 2018-2019, 2021 | 106, 113, 152 |
| Gavin Teasdale | Jefferson-Morgan | 2015-2018 | 106, 113, 126, 126 |
| Cameron Coy | Penn-Trafford | 2014, 2016-2017 | 132, 145, 152 |
| Spencer Lee | Franklin Regional | 2014-2016 | 113, 120, 120 |
| George Phillippi | Derry | 2013, 2015-2016 | 113, 132, 138 |
| Luke Pletcher | Greater Latrobe | 2013-2014, 2016 | 106, 120, 138 |
| Jason Nolf | Kittanning | 2011-2013 | 103, 132, 145 |
| Cody Wiercioch | Charleroi, Canon-McMillian | 2010, 2012-2013 | 152, 170, 170 |
| James Gulibon | Derry | 2009-2012 | 103, 112, 119, 126 |
| Nico Megaludis | Franklin Regional | 2009-2011 | 112, 119, 125 |
| Dane Johnson | Shady Side Academy | 2007-2009 | 112, 125, 140 |
| Shane Young | Penn-Trafford | 2007-2009 | 103, 112, 119 |
| Troy Dolan | Derry | 2005-2007 | 112, 119, 119 |
| Kurt Brenner | Freedom Area | 2002-2004 | 171, 171, 171 |
| Coleman Scott | Waynesburg Central | 2002-2004 | 103, 112, 125 |
| Jeremy Hunter | McGuffey | 1993-1996 | 103, 103, 112, 119 |
| Cary Kolat | Jefferson-Morgan | 1989-1992 | 119, 125, 130, 135 |
| Ray Brinzer | North Allegheny | 1988-1990 | 155, 160, 160 |
| Ty Moore | North Allegheny | 1987-1990 | 98, 105, 112, 119 |
| Mike DeAugustino | North Allegheny | 1974-1976 | 105, 112, 112 |
| Manuel Pihakis | Canonsburg | 1950-1952 | 95, 103, 103 |
| Anthony Gizoni | Washington | 1946-1948 | 95, 103, 112 |
| James Conklin | Waynesburg | 1940-1943 | 85, 95, 112, 120 |
| George Custer | Canonsburg | 1938-1940 | 95, 105, 115 |
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