COLBY — The 2025 Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference wrestling regular season has concluded with Pratt Community College winning the 2025 KJCCC Wrestling regular season title while Fort Hays Tech Northwest has claimed the 2025 NJCAA South Central District Wrestling Title.
Pratt won the KJCCC regular season title as dual champions with a perfect 7-0 dual record, with an average dual score of 42-10 in each of their seven conference duals. The closest dual that the Beavers had against conference foes came against Fort Hays Tech Northwest as the Beavers won 32-22 in a dual that was contested on January 29th in Chanute, Kansas as PCC saw five of their seven conference dual wins come away from home. Capping off their regular season dual schedule on February 6th with home duals against Colby and Cowley, the Beavers left no doubt on their conference crown by defeating the Trojans 44-3 before earning a 35-13 win over the Tigers.
Labette finished as KJCCC dual wrestling runners-up with a 6-1 dual record as the lone loss of the conference season for the Cardinals came against Pratt on January 15th while Fort Hays Tech Northwest finished third in the conference with a 5-2 conference dual record.
Once the conference dual season wrapped up, KJCCC schools were joined by three Oklahoma schools from NJCAA Region 2 (Northeast Oklahoma A&M, Carl Albert State College, and Northern Oklahoma- Tonkawa) for the NJCAA South Central District Tournament which was hosted by Pratt Community College inside the Dennis Lesh Sports Arena on Saturday, February 15th.
All 11 schools in the district entered a wrestler at each of the 10 weight classes for a total of 110 wrestlers competing throughout the 200-match tournament with a chance to earn a spot at the 2025 NJCAA Wrestling National Tournament on the line as 77 total bids to the National Tournament were up for grabs.
What proved to be a three-team race in the team scoring came down to the placement matches as Northeast Oklahoma, Pratt, and Fort Hays Tech were all within 10 points of each other heading into the championship bouts.
In addition to the District Title for Fort Hays Tech Northwest, post-tournament honors were earned by Tiger head coach Chris Guillot as District Coach of the Year and Jeisser Sampson-Sanchez (285 pounds) as Tournament MVP as FHNW scored 165 points to edge out Pratt who scored 157.5 total points. Labette was the next highest KJCCC school with a fourth-place finish and 130.5 points with Cowley (sixth, 116 points), Colby (seventh, 73 points), and Barton (eighth, 40.5 points) rounding out the top eight.
Of the 77 National qualifying bids that were awarded at the tournament, 58 total wrestlers from the KJCCC earned a bid by finishing in the top seven of their respective weight class or by earning one of the seven wild card bids that were available at the tournament. At least five wrestlers in each of the 10 weight classes have qualified for the National Championship Tournament that is scheduled March 7-8 at the Mid-America Center in Council Bluffs, Iowa, with a breakdown for each of the eight KJCCC schools listed below.
Barton – 5 National Qualifiers Cloud County – 4 National Qualifiers Colby – 7 National Qualifiers Cowley – 8 National Qualifiers Fort Hays Tech Northwest – 9 National Qualifiers Labette – 10 National Qualifiers Neosho County – 5 National Qualifiers Pratt – 9 National Qualifiers
