diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 3a5c72b..eb58fef 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 [build-system]
-requires = ["setuptools >= 61.0", "setuptools-scm >= 7.1", "wheel >= 0.40"]
+requires = ["setuptools >= 61.0", "setuptools-scm >= 7.1"]
 build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
 
 [project]