The upcoming NCAA season may only seem like a distant ship's smoke on the horizon during these long summer days, but that doesn't mean it's too early to start speculating about the 2017-18 season. Indeed, it is never too early to start speculating.

To get a better idea of what we might see next season, we took a look back at the 2017 NCAA Wrestling Championships. We compared all the Division I programs by how many team points were earned by their underclassmen to see who will be returning the most firepower for the 2018 tournament.

We'll get to the top 10 teams individually later on, but first we'll check out the teams that finished 11-20 in our official tally. Below are the schools and the number of 2017 NCAA points they return to their rosters.

20. Nebraska 13

19. Rider 13.5

18. Rutgers 16

17. Central Michigan 17

16. Wyoming 17

15. Edinboro 17.5

14. Illinois 22

13. South Dakota State 23

12. Northern Iowa 24.5

11. NC State 25

The table below presents a full accounting of every wrestler who scored 2017 tournament points and will be returning next season to our teams ranked No. 11-20.

SCHOOL	WT	NAME	PTS
Northern Iowa	149	Max Thomsen	10
Northern Iowa	184	Drew Foster	7.5
Northern Iowa	133	Josh Alber	3.5
Northern Iowa	165	Bryce Steiert	2
Northern Iowa	174	Taylor Lujan	1.5
South Dakota State	133	Seth Gross	19.5
South Dakota State	174	David Kocer	1.5
South Dakota State	165	Luke Zilverberg	1.5
South Dakota State	197	Nate Rotert	0.5
NC State	141	Kevin Jack	16.5
NC State	125	Sean Fausz	4
NC State	184	Michael Macchiavello	3
NC State	133	Jamal Morris	1
NC State	165	Brian Hamann	0.5
Illinois	165	Isaiah Martinez	17
Illinois	157	Kyle Langenderfer	2.5
Illinois	184	Emery Parker	2
Illinois	125	Travis Piotrowski	0.5
Edinboro	125	Sean Russell	8
Edinboro	184	Dakota Geer	3
Edinboro	165	Austin Matthews	2.5
Edinboro	133	Korbin Myers	2.5
Edinboro	285	Billy Miller	1
Edinboro	174	Ty Schoffstall	0.5
Wyoming	141	Bryce Meredith	14.5
Wyoming	157	Archie Colgan	1.5
Wyoming	165	Branson Ashworth	1
Central Michigan	149	Justin Oliver	5
Central Michigan	174	CJ Brucki	4.5
Central Michigan	285	Newton Smerchek	2.5
Central Michigan	184	Jordan Ellingwood	2.5
Central Michigan	141	Mason Smith	1.5
Central Michigan	157	Colin Heffernan	1
Rutgers	141	Anthony Ashnault	9
Rutgers	184	Nick Gravina	3.5
Rutgers	133	Scott Delvecchio	2.5
Rutgers	174	Jordan Pagano	0.5
Rutgers	157	John Van Brill	0.5
Rider	165	Chad Walsh	9.5
Rider	157	BJ Clagon	4
Nebraska	157	Tyler Berger	10
Nebraska	141	Colton McCrystal	3

Only wrestlers who scored in last year's tournament made the list, so guys like NC State's Pete Renda, who finished third in the 2016 NCAAs but took a redshirt season last year, are not mentioned. Additionally, Pat Lugo has announced he will not be returning to Edinboro next year and thus is not in our table, even though he scored points in St. Louis for the Fighting Scots. Corey Keener will likewise be listed under Penn State, where he will wrestle in the future, rather than Central Michigan, where he earned his 2017 NCAA points.

And of course there will also be plenty of wrestlers who will score NCAA points for the first time in Cleveland next March who are not featured here.

We'll take a closer at each individual team as we go through the top 10 one by one in the near future. Until then, stay comfortable but not necessarily numb, as we have plenty more content about the impending NCAA wrestling season on the way.