2026-27 Season Preview · #8 of 15

#8 Missouri

MatScouts Crystal Ball projected 2027 NCAA top 15 (Willie Saylor), mid-summer update

Missouri is the biggest projected jump on this list: fourteenth in March, eighth in the ranking. The math starts with 32.5 of their 34 points coming back, the highest returning share of any team here. Aeoden Sinclair took third at 184. Cam Steed took fifth at 174. Almost nothing walked out the door.

The one move to watch: Luke Geog transfers in from Ohio State at 197. Five guys who can make the podium in March, but eighth only holds if all five show up on the same weekend.

Returning NCAA tournament points

Of the 34 team points Missouri scored at the 2026 NCAA Championships, wrestlers accounting for 32.5 points (96%) are back in the room this season. 1.5 points walked out the door. Hover over the bar for the breakdown.

2026 NCAA team points: returning vs. leaving

034 pts scored in 2026
Returning Departing

NCAA finish by year

Where Missouri actually finished at the NCAA Championships each year (solid green line), next to where our development model expected a roster with these ratings to finish (dashed gray line). Hover over a point for the score.

Team finish at the NCAA Championships, 2021 to 2026

202120222023202420252026
Actual finish Model-expected finish

Impact Score

Impact score is our model’s one-number rating of a wrestler’s season, earned in the conference tournament and the NCAA bracket: the deeper the March run, the higher the score. Aeoden Sinclair’s 141 was the best returning score on this roster last season.

Add up every season this roster wrestled in 2025-26 and it comes to 390 impact. 337 of it (86%) is already back in the room, 53 walked out the door through the portal.

Career impact score entering 2026-27

  1. Cam Steed174 lbs 148
  2. Aeoden Sinclair184 lbs 110
  3. Teague Travis157 lbs 56
  4. Josh Edmond149 lbs 44
  5. Gage Walker133 lbs 18

Roster

Projected 2026-27 lineup

Every weight, who is projected to hold it, what they did in the 2025-26 postseason, and who held the spot last March. All numbers are conference-tournament and NCAA matches only. Impact score is our model’s rating of a season: the 2025-26 number is what they earned, the 2026-27 number is what the model expects next.

125

Mack Mauger

Sophomore
DNP2026 NCAA Tournament
7th2026 Conference Tournament
2025-26 Postseason Starter
Mack Mauger (So)DNP at NCAAs (32 seed) Back in 2026-27
2026-27 (expected)37Impact Score
2025-2628Impact Score
2025-26 Postseason Stats
Bonus Rate25%
Takedowns / Match0.9
Nearfall Pts / Match0.3
Riding Time Points2
Escape Pts / Match0.5
Reversals / Match0.1
133

Gage Walker

Sophomore
DNP2026 NCAA Tournament
5th2026 Conference Tournament
2025-26 Postseason Starter
Gage Walker (So)DNP at NCAAs (19 seed) Back in 2026-27
2026-27 (expected)37Impact Score
2025-2633Impact Score
2025-26 Postseason Stats
Bonus Rate0%
Takedowns / Match0.3
Nearfall Pts / Match0.3
Riding Time Points1
Escape Pts / Match1.4
Reversals / Match0
141

Easton Hilton

Freshman

No 2025-26 postseason matches. Stats begin when they reach a bracket.

2025-26 Postseason Starter
Easton Hilton (Fr)No NCAA bracket Back in 2026-27
2026-27 (expected)16Impact Score
2025-263Impact Score
2025-26 Postseason Stats
Bonus Rate–
Takedowns / Match0
Nearfall Pts / Match0
Riding Time Points0
Escape Pts / Match1.5
Reversals / Match0
149

Josh Edmond

Sixth Year
7th2026 Conference Tournament
2025-26 Postseason Starter
Josh Edmond (6th year)No NCAA bracket Graduated
2026-27 (expected)16Impact Score
2025-2611Impact Score
2025-26 Postseason Stats
Bonus Rate–
Takedowns / Match0.8
Nearfall Pts / Match0
Riding Time Points1
Escape Pts / Match1.4
Reversals / Match0
157

Teague Travis

Fifth Year
6th2026 Conference Tournament
2025-26 Postseason Starter
Teague Travis (5th year)No NCAA bracket Graduated
2026-27 (expected)16Impact Score
2025-2615Impact Score
2025-26 Postseason Stats
Bonus Rate–
Takedowns / Match1.3
Nearfall Pts / Match0
Riding Time Points2
Escape Pts / Match1.5
Reversals / Match0.2
165

Max Mayfield

Freshman

No 2025-26 postseason matches. Stats begin when they reach a bracket.

2025-26 Postseason Starter
Max Mayfield (Fr)No NCAA bracket Back in 2026-27
2026-27 (expected)16Impact Score
2025-266Impact Score
2025-26 Postseason Stats
Bonus Rate–
Takedowns / Match1.3
Nearfall Pts / Match0
Riding Time Points1
Escape Pts / Match1.7
Reversals / Match0
174

Cam Steed

Sophomore
5th2026 NCAA Tournament
1st2026 Conference Tournament
2025-26 Postseason Starter
Cam Steed (So)5th at NCAAs Back in 2026-27
2026-27 (expected)72Impact Score
2025-26103Impact Score
2025-26 Postseason Stats
Bonus Rate38%
Takedowns / Match1.7
Nearfall Pts / Match1.0
Riding Time Points2
Escape Pts / Match1.1
Reversals / Match0.1
184

Aeoden Sinclair

Sophomore
3rd2026 NCAA Tournament
1st2026 Conference Tournament
2025-26 Postseason Starter
Aeoden Sinclair (So)3rd at NCAAs Back in 2026-27
2026-27 (expected)72Impact Score
2025-26141Impact Score
2025-26 Postseason Stats
Bonus Rate50%
Takedowns / Match2.5
Nearfall Pts / Match0
Riding Time Points6
Escape Pts / Match1.5
Reversals / Match0
197

Luke Geog

No 2025-26 postseason matches. Stats begin when they reach a bracket.

2025-26 Postseason Starter
Evan Bates (5th year)DNP at NCAAs (25 seed) Graduated
2026-27 (expected)11Impact Score
2025-26–Impact Score
2025-26 Postseason Stats

No postseason data yet.

285

Jarrett Stoner

Freshman
DNP2026 NCAA Tournament
5th2026 Conference Tournament
2025-26 Postseason Starter
Jarrett Stoner (Fr)DNP at NCAAs (28 seed) Back in 2026-27
2026-27 (expected)37Impact Score
2025-2623Impact Score
2025-26 Postseason Stats
Bonus Rate–
Takedowns / Match1.0
Nearfall Pts / Match0
Riding Time Points1
Escape Pts / Match1.3
Reversals / Match0

Incoming recruits

The 2026 signing class, ranked by final big-board position. Expected entry score is the impact our model projects for a recruit’s first college season, set by where they finished on the board.

  • Aiden Cooleyexpected entry score 3#70 board
  • Yandel Moralesexpected entry score 1#104 board
  • Trey Craigexpected entry score 1#162 board
  • Demetrios Carrerraexpected entry score 1#186 board
  • Curtis Borgeexpected entry score 1#193 board
  • Brady Collinsexpected entry score 1#198 board
  • Jason Hamptonexpected entry score 1#227 board

Transfer portal

The 2026 cycle, in and out: no moves yet. Nobody has entered or left this roster through the portal since the season ended.

The full portal history, cycle by cycle, is in the Development section below.

2026 NCAA team stats

What this roster did in the 2026 bracket, and where that ranks among every team that scored at the tournament.

33 Takedowns #15 of 67
5 Bonus-rate wins #18 of 45
6 Nearfall points #30 of 47
23 Escapes #29 of 70
2 Reversals #24 of 45
9 Riding-time points #9 of 57

How this team compares to all of D1

Bonus rate

Missouri36%
All D131%

Takedowns per match

Missouri1.3
All D11.0

Team points per qualifier

Missouri5.7
All D11.5

Medians across the 70 programs that scored at the 2026 NCAA Championships.

Takedowns per match

2026 postseason pace, projected lineup only.

  1. Aeoden Sinclair184 lbs 2.5
  2. Cam Steed174 lbs 1.7
  3. Teague Travis157 lbs 1.3
  4. Max Mayfield165 lbs 1.3
  5. Jarrett Stoner285 lbs 1.0

Nearfall points per match

2026 postseason pace, projected lineup only.

  1. Cam Steed174 lbs 1.0
  2. Mack Mauger125 lbs 0.3
  3. Gage Walker133 lbs 0.3

Development

Recruiting and the portal, 2020 → today

Every signee and every portal move this program has made since 2020, and what came of them. Expected is the rating our model projects: a first college season is measured against the wrestler’s big-board entry score, later seasons against the development model. Actual is the rating they earned. Click a wrestler to open their score card: the season-by-season receipt behind those career totals.