diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 2c93bdd..3f46c01 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 [build-system]
 requires = [
     "setuptools>=42",
-    "wheel",
     "scikit-build>=0.13.0",
     "cmake",
     "ninja; platform_system!='Windows'",
@@ -9,4 +8,4 @@ requires = [
     "Cython==3.0.0a10",
     "rapidfuzz_capi==1.0.5"
 ]
-build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
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+build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"