diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 4219d057..a4cde720 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 [build-system]
 requires = [
   "setuptools>=51.0",
-  "wheel>=0.36",
 ]
 build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"