Every custom wrestling singlet, fight short, and warmup we ship is backed by a written commitment to your program:
Nothing is made until you approve it: a free mockup within 12 hours and unlimited changes.
Free remake if we get it wrong: If we made the mistake (off-color, wrong logo placement or a misnumbered piece compared with your approved proof), tell us within 30 days of delivery and we remake it free.
Questions about your roster or sizing for the next tournament cycle? Reach a real HAMCO uniform specialist by phone or email, not a chatbot.
Why Hamco Wrestling Singlets Mean Quality
A Pennsylvania varsity room runs live-go for ninety minutes on a Tuesday night in January. Fourteen kids in pairs, scrambling for the bottom position, sprawling out of doubles, drilling cradles. Friday night is a dual against the next district over. Saturday morning is a four-team round-robin at the high school across town. By Sunday the same singlet has run through six dual matches and three practice sessions, two wash cycles, and a humid bus ride home.
That is the month to plan for. Our 92/8 poly-spandex singlet runs 220 to 240 GSM, and the sublimation dye is fused into the polyester fiber, not pressed onto the surface.
Singlets come in men's, women's and youth cuts. Women's singlets come in their own women's cut, not a men's singlet in smaller sizes. Sizes run from YS for bantam-weight kids up to adult 4XL for heavyweight builds.
Care Instructions for Wrestling Uniforms
Wrestling gear absorbs sweat, mat sanitizer, blood, headgear ear chafe, and the residue of every weight cut from October to March. Smart laundry habits still matter:
- Mat sanitizer and chlorhexidine residue: If a singlet picks up a heavy spill of mat cleaner, rinse it in a sink with cold water soon after the workout.
- Blood stains from mat burn or nose bleeds: Rinse with cold water as soon as you can, never hot water: hot water sets blood stains.
- Headgear ear-chafe sweat: The shoulder yoke of the singlet collects the sweat that wicks down the headgear strap. Pre-treat the upper shoulder zone before every wash. A thirty-second cold-water spot rinse breaks up the salt residue that hot dryer cycles otherwise bake into the fabric.
- Weight-cut sauna-suit interactions: Wrestlers cutting hard through sauna suits sometimes wear the singlet underneath the plastic. The trapped heat is not gentle on stretch fibers. After a heavy cut session, give the singlet a cold rinse and lay flat to dry before machine washing.
- Wash cycle: Cold water, inside out, mild detergent, gentle cycle. No bleach, no fabric softener, no dryer sheets. Fabric softener coats the moisture-wicking fibers and kills the wicking.
- Drying: Hang dry or tumble on low. Skip high heat: it is hard on stretch fabric and elastic waistbands.
- Storage between tournaments: Fully dry before bagging. A damp singlet sealed in a gear bag for two days grows mildew that no wash fully recovers.
The same care guidelines apply to your sideline warmup jackets, full-zip hoodies, jogger pants, and travel duffles.
Wrestling Competition Level Matcher
Hamco outfits programs at every level of the folkstyle, freestyle, and Greco-Roman ladder. Pick your tier, tell us your league's rules, and we'll design to them:
- 8U & 10U Bantam (USAW): Youth-cut singlets, two-color sublimation, oversized numbering for parent visibility from the bleachers.
- 12U Schoolboy (USAW Folkstyle): Roster-sheet sizing across YS through YL, with numbering and logos set to your league rules.
- 14U Cadet (USAW Folkstyle & Freestyle): 220 to 240 GSM singlets, matching warmup jackets and warmup pants for the Cadet Duals circuit, dye-batch coordination across age divisions in one order.
- 16U & 18U Junior (USAW + NHSCA): Matching singlets, warmup jackets and travel bags for the national tournament circuit, all in one order.
- High School Varsity (NFHS-sanctioned): school-mascot embroidery on warmup jackets, purchase orders accepted.
- NCAA Division I, II, III, NAIA, NJCAA: Full coordinated sets across home and away singlets, conference-mandated sponsor-patch placement, and a free rush on request, when production allows, for post-season deadlines.
- UWW International (Freestyle & Greco-Roman): Full international cut, color contrast set to the UWW rules you send, four-color sublimation art for senior-level world team training camps.
- Senior Open, Veterans, Masters (35+, 40+, 50+, 60+ divisions): Adult cuts up to 4XL, with custom sizing available.
- Women's Folkstyle & Freestyle (USAW + NCWWC): Women's-cut singlets for women's folkstyle and freestyle programs.
One order, no minimum, free 12-hour mockup turnaround. From the 8U Bantam beginner in Iowa to the NCAA Division I 197-pounder in Stillwater, the same Hamco line covers it.
Wrestling Governing Bodies and Events
The rules a singlet has to meet change between folkstyle, freestyle and Greco-Roman, and between high school, college and international. These are the main bodies and events whose rules a singlet may have to meet:
- USA Wrestling: the national governing body recognized by the United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee. Folkstyle, freestyle, and Greco-Roman age-group programs run through USAW state associations. See the official rulebook at themat.com.
- NFHS: writes the high school wrestling rules that state associations use. NFHS Rule 4 covers the uniform and equipment, including how the singlet is cut and what is worn under it. Full rule resource at nfhs.org wrestling rules.
- College wrestling: NCAA Division I, II and III, NAIA and NJCAA. Conferences and programs can set their own singlet color and sponsor rules.
- UWW (United World Wrestling): international freestyle and Greco-Roman governing body, with its own singlet rules.
- USAW Folkstyle Nationals & USAW Freestyle / Greco-Roman Cadet & Junior Nationals: USA Wrestling's national age-group tournaments.
- NHSCA (National High School Coaches Association): runs the yearly NHSCA High School Nationals.
- NWCA (National Wrestling Coaches Association): the national association for wrestling coaches.
Tell us the league or sanctioning body you play under and its rules, and we'll design to them.
Wrestling Fabric & Performance Specs
Coaches who pay attention to spec sheets ask the right questions. Here is what is actually inside a Hamco wrestling singlet, fight short, and sideline piece:
- Competition singlet: 220 to 240 GSM 92/8 poly-spandex compression knit, in men's, women's and youth cuts.
- Compression short (under singlet): Poly-spandex compression knit with 4-way stretch, worn under the singlet in competition or on its own at weigh-ins and warmups.
- Practice short & training short: Loose fit with an elastic waistband, a different cut from the compression short, for conditioning and live-go drilling in the practice room.
- Fight short (MMA-board style): Split-leg design in your team colors and graphics. Used by clubs that cross-train BJJ and wrestling.
- Sideline full-zip warmup jacket and matching pants: In your singlet colors. Worn through team walk-ins and bus rides between weigh-in and the dual-meet venue.
- Pullover hoodie & crewneck: Soft fleece, with your team graphics or an embroidered chest logo, for off-mat school wear.
- Quarter-zip and lightweight track jacket: A sideline option for warmer practice rooms and the spring freestyle season.
- Decoration method: Full sublimation on the singlet, compression short and fight short. Embroidered chest logos or printed graphics on the fleece sideline pieces. No screen print on the singlet: it can crack where the leg opening stretches.
Sublimation locks the dye into the polyester fiber.
Wrestling Customization Options
Every piece we build is fully customizable, from the sublimation art down to the patch placement:
- Number and name placement: School name on the chest, individual wrestler last name above the back of the singlet, sponsor patch on the upper hip or sleeve cap. Number size and placement rules differ by league, so send us yours.
- One-piece singlet vs two-piece uniform: the NFHS allows a two-piece (form-fitted compression top plus shorts) as an alternative to the singlet; Hamco makes the one-piece singlet.
- Logo placement: Chest (sublimated full-color art), shoulder yoke (sublimated team mascot), back yoke (sublimated school crest), hip (sublimated sponsor patch). Wrap-around dye-sublimation art across the entire singlet is supported, no per-color upcharge.
- Sponsor patches: Chest, shoulder, or hip placement, embroidered or sublimated. Free unlimited revisions on the digital mockup.
- Color matching: Provide a PMS code or a sample swatch and our art team matches it. Same-dye-batch coordination across singlets, warmup jackets, warmup pants, and travel duffles is standard, not an upcharge.
- Sublimation art: Unlimited colors, gradients, photo-realistic art, and patterns. Sublimation is dye-into-fiber, so complex art does not cost more per piece.
If your conference or sanctioning body has a uniform-rule constraint Hamco has not seen, send the rule book and we design your mockup to it.
What Makes Hamco Custom Wrestling Singlets Different
Coaches comparing custom wrestling singlet vendors usually evaluate on three axes. Quality of the actual fabric. Pattern fit across the full weight-class range. And whether the supplier still exists in three seasons.
Hamco has been designing custom team uniforms in the USA since 2011. No vanishing act and no resold stock. Our in-house designers in the USA design your uniforms, and our own factory overseas makes them to your approved mockup.
On fit, every singlet comes in a men's, women's or youth cut at the same price.
No minimum order. Free digital mockup within 12 hours. Volume pricing tiers at 1 to 24, 25 to 50, 51 to 100, and 101 to 500+ pieces. Free shipping anywhere in the United States. Ready 2 to 3 weeks after you approve the mockup, then 3 to 5 days to your door. Real people answer your calls and emails, not a chatbot.
Half your wrestling room plays football in the fall. We build custom football uniforms too, with the same free 12-hour mockup, no minimum order, and one supplier for both seasons.
