At 165 there was a matchup of two Lakewood St. Edward Eagles, both Ohio high school state champs. Bryce Hepner, a grad student at North Carolina got the better of Sean Selfeldt, a junior at Penn, 11-4.

Coincidentally, at the same time at 165, one mat away, another St. Edward state champ, Paddy Gallager, an OSU Buckeye, beat Braeden Scoles of Illinois, 13-4.