Okay, I got it to stop giving me errors at least, using the following code: 
#!/usr/local/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use CGI qw/:standard/;
use CGI::Carp qw/fatalsToBrowser/;

my $wrestlerdir = '/home/ewexpert/public_html/rosterrank';

open(FILE, "$wrestlerdir/wrestlerlist.txt");
    my @lines = <FILE>;
    chomp (@lines = <FILE>);

close(FILE);

foreach my $test (@lines) {
open my $fh, "<", "$wrestlerdir/$test.total" or die "Can't open @lines
+.total $!";
my @total = <$fh>;
}
print header, start_html('Rankings: '), (@lines), end_html;

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However, from what I can tell I don't think it's working. It's just outputting a blank page. Even more troublesome is that I know that 1 or 2 of the .total files aren't actually there, because I wanted to see what it would do if the files weren't present. It should print "Can't open @lines.total" but it's just entirely blank.

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