2025 All-Americans By Graduating Class & Big Board Position
2025 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: 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024
All-Americans By High School Class
2018: 2
2019: 22
2020: 14
2021: 10
2022: 16
2023: 15
2024: 1
All-Americans Who Weren't Top-100 Recruits
Total: 13
125 (2) - Matt Ramos (5th), Caleb Smith (7th)
133 (0)
141 (2) - CJ Composto (4th), Jacob Frost (7th)
149 (1) - Gavin Drexler (8th)
157 (1) - Caleb Fish (8th)
165 (3) - Christopher Minto (4th), Terrell Barraclough (5th), Cam Steed (7th)
174 (0)
184 (1) - Donnell Washington (8th)
197 (2) - Stephen Buchanan (1), Stephen Little (7th)
285 (1) - Josh Heindselman (7th)
By The Numbers
Percentage of AAs who weren't on the Big Board - 16.25%
Average Big Board position of champs: 20.66 (this excludes Stephen Buchanan who wasn't on the final 2019 Big Board)
Average Big Board position of all finalists: 16.15 (again this excludes Stephen Buchanan)
Stephen Buchanan was the first non top 100 recruit to win it since Drew Foster in 2019. Other non top 100 finalists include Matt Ramos and Tanner Sloan in 2023, Kizhan Clarke in 2022, maybe Jesse Dellavecchia in 2021 (unable to track down 2015 Big Board)