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 | 2022

Al-Americans By High School Class

2016: 2

2017: 20

2018: 26

2019: 16

2020: 10

2021: 3

2022: 3

All-Americans Who Weren't Top-100 Recruits

125 (4) - Matt Ramos (2nd), Anthony Noto (4th), Liam Cronin (5th), Killian Cardinale (8th)

141 (1) - Clay Carlson (5th)

165 (1) - Izzak Olejnik (8th)

174 (1) - Will Feldkamp (7th)

197 (3) - Tanner Sloan (2nd), Bernie Truax (4th), Ethan Laird (6th)

By The Numbers

Percentage Of AAs Who Weren't On A Big Board: 12.5%

Average Big Board position of champs: 8.5 (lowest was Nino Bonaccorsi at #30)

Average Big Board position of finalists: 22.5 (Matt Ramos and Tanner Sloan were not on their classes final big board, so they were given positions of 150 for this calculation)

125

133

141

149

157

165

174

184

197

285