Peter Joseph Mehringer (July 15, 1910 – August 27, 1987) was an American Olympic gold medal-winning freestyle wrestler from Kinsley, Kansas.

[1] After learning how to wrestle from a correspondence course, he went on to win two Kansas high school state championships, and then three Missouri Valley Conference titles while attending the University of Kansas.

Mehringer returned to KU in 1932 for his junior season and solidified his place among KU's all-time great athletes by earning All-Big Six Conference honors in football as a 214-pound tackle.

Mehringer went on to play professional football with the Chicago Cardinals[2][3] and the Los Angeles Bulldogs, and worked occasionally as a movie extra and stunt man.

He is also KU's only grappling icon to have pursue a career in professional wrestling, mostly doing tours in New Zealand.