2024 USMC/USAW 16U and Junior National Championships

2024 Set New Records For Being The Biggest Fargo Ever

2024 Set New Records For Being The Biggest Fargo Ever

2024's USA Wrestling's 16U and Junior National Championships in Fargo, North Dakota set new participation records.

Jul 26, 2024 by Andrew Spey
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This year's edition of USA Wrestling's 16U and Junior National Championships in Fargo, North Dakota, set new participation records for the annual event.

Like last year's annual high school wrestling bonanza, this summer's Fargo was the biggest ever. 

Just how big was the biggest Fargo ever? Perhaps this bar graph of participation by style from 2011 to 2024 will help illuminate the degree of record-breaking bigness of which we speak. 


If you'd like to see the raw numbers, direct your attention just a little lower on the screen for a table of the participants by style from the same years, as well as the percentage increase from year to year.


YEAR16U WFSJR WFS16U GRJR GR16U MFSJR MFSTotal
2011811897467839321,0063,737
2012852017787739431,0483,828
2013862258078001,0071,0623,987
20141212848028699801,0734,129
20151643069138951,0841,1404,502
20162024059349701,1241,2014,836
20172424329238941,1531,1434,787
20182585139159081,1811,2244,999
20193605949679281,2531,2725,374
20213506629431,0441,3171,5855,901
20225189461,0441,1401,4361,5636,647
20237408531,2031,1441,5951,5967,131
20248381,1351,2591,3111,6981,8158,056
YEAR16U WFSJR WFS16U GRJR GR16U MFSJR MFSTotal
20124.9%6.3%4.3%-1.3%1.2%4.2%2.4%
20131.2%11.9%3.7%3.5%6.8%1.3%4.2%
201440.7%26.2%-0.6%8.6%-2.7%1.0%3.6%
201535.5%7.7%13.8%3.0%10.6%6.2%9.0%
201623.2%32.4%2.3%8.4%3.7%5.4%7.4%
201719.8%6.7%-1.2%-7.8%2.6%-4.8%-1.0%
20186.6%18.8%-0.9%1.6%2.4%7.1%4.4%
201939.5%15.8%5.7%2.2%6.1%3.9%7.5%
2021-2.8%11.4%-2.5%12.5%5.1%24.6%9.8%
202248.0%42.9%10.7%9.2%9.0%-1.4%12.6%
202342.9%-9.8%15.2%0.4%11.1%2.1%7.3%
202413.2%33.1%4.7%14.6%6.5%13.7%13.0%


Those are phenomenal numbers. They are also the number of names that appeared in the brackets, so there may be some discrepancies with other counts that tallied registration numbers or other specific things. 

We asked last year how much bigger Fargo could grow, and apparently the answer was "at least 13% bigger!". Will we ever reach the limit of Fargo's gargantuousness? 

For an even deeper appreciation of our most brobdingagian Fargo ever, we've included some photos of 2024 Fargo below by the great Tony Rotundo:















See you next year for perhaps another record-breaking wrestling event!