diff --git a/peps/pep-0518.rst b/peps/pep-0518.rst
index 18749bc2419..fb5fd156b2f 100644
--- a/peps/pep-0518.rst
+++ b/peps/pep-0518.rst
@@ -164,9 +164,9 @@ the ``pyproject.toml`` file will be::
 
   [build-system]
   # Minimum requirements for the build system to execute.
-  requires = ["setuptools", "wheel"]  # PEP 508 specifications.
+  requires = ["setuptools"]  # PEP 508 specifications.
 
-Because the use of setuptools and wheel are so expansive in the
+Because the use of setuptools is so expansive in the
 community at the moment, build tools are expected to use the example
 configuration file above as their default semantics when a
 ``pyproject.toml`` file is not present.