2025-26 Wrestling Roster
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197 lbs
/ Wrestling
165 lbs
/ Wrestling
197 lbs
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133 lbs
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125 lbs
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197 lbs
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174 lbs
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141 lbs
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125 lbs
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157 lbs
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HWT
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149 lbs
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197 lbs
/ Wrestling
141 lbs
/ Wrestling
141 lbs
/ Wrestling
149 lbs
/ Wrestling
165 lbs
/ Wrestling
157 lbs
/ Wrestling
149 lbs
/ Wrestling
141 lbs
/ Wrestling
157 lbs
/ Wrestling
165 lbs
/ Wrestling
125 lbs
/ Wrestling
HWT
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HWT
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184 lbs
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174 lbs
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165 lbs
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HWT
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149 lbs
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149 lbs
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John Martin Best
- Weight:
- 165
- Class:
- Redshirt Senior
- Position:
- 165 lbs
- Major:
- Management Studies
- Hometown:
- Parkersburg, WV
- High School:
- Parkersburg
- Prev School:
- Air Force
CAREER HONORS:
2021-22 (FRESHMAN):
BEFORE MARYLAND:
- 2025, 2026 Academic All-Big Ten
- 4–4 overall record in 2025–26 at 165 lbs for Maryland
- Competed at Southeast Open and 2025 Journeymen Collegiate Classic
- Finished year with a 5-2 record, winning his first five matches of season.
- 3-0 to start the season, all wins by bonus points in dual matches.
- Won by fall (2:11) against Isaac Stoker of Gardner Webb (12/8), also had two major decisions and one technical fall.
- Beat Breon Phifer (American), 12-3, in season-opening match.
- 8th Place in Tiger Style Invite, suffered season-ending injury in Missouri.
- Went 2-0 in Maryland's quad meet on Nov. 5 in his first action back from injury, winning by major decision against Bloomsburg's Trenton Harder and by decision over American's Caleb Campos.
- Came away with big SV decision against Indiana for first career Big Ten win (1/09).
- Won in TB2 against Purdue's Cooper Noehre to help kickstart Maryland's massive comeback against Purdue.
- Represented Maryland at 2023 Big Ten Championships.
2021-22 (FRESHMAN):
- Suffered seaon-ending ACL injury on Dec.4 against Duke
- 2021 Clarion Open Finalist
- Earned first dual victory of career with a 5-0 decision victory over Duke's Brandon LaRue (12/4).
BEFORE MARYLAND:
- Two-time West Virginia State Champion, was also a Cadet Pan American Championships Gold Medalist in 2019.
- First state title came in 2017 at 120-pounds while his second would come at 152-pounds in 2019 just months before his international successful.
- During his lone year in Colorado Springs, Colorado, Best redshirted while studying at the Academy’s Prepatory School. Despite heading to Air Force to start his college career, the West Virginia native nearly chose Maryland back when making his decision. At the time, Best was considered the No. 62 prospect in America by The Open Mat.
- Best’s father was a former Chief Master Saergent before retiring from the Air Force.
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