All-Americans By Graduating Class & Big Board Position
All-Americans By Graduating Class & Big Board Position
A deep-dive into the age of this year's NCAA All-Americans and how good they were coming out of high school.
It's always interesting to go back and look at what wrestlers performed to their expectations coming out of high school, and what athletes overperformed. So, that's exactly what I have done.
Below are tables of each weight class' eight All-Americans and their position on their respective big board.
You can find the big boards at the following links: 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021
Al-Americans By High School Class
2015: 5
2016: 13
2017: 19
2018: 23
2019: 13
2020: 5
2021: 1
*Not included: Yonger Bastida
All-Americans Who Weren't Top-100 Recruits
125 - Michael DeAugustino (4th), Brandon Kaylor (8th)
133 - Devan Turner (8th)
141 - Kizhan Clarke (2nd), Jakob Bergeland (7th), CJ Composto (8th)
149 - Jonathan Millner (6th)
174 - Clay Lautt (8th)
184 - Bernie Truax (4th), Jonathan Loew (8th)
197 - Stephen Buchanan (3rd), Yonger Bastida (5th)
285 - Christian Lance (8th)
Averages
Big Board placement of champs: 21*
Big Board placement of finalists: 19**
*#97 Ryan Deakin and #74 Max Dean skew this number a bit high. All others were in the top 12
** this calculation does not include Kizhan Clarke, who was not in the top-100