Ohio State had just about the most successful season an NCAA wrestling program can have without winning a team championship. 

The Buckeyes won the Cliff Keen Las Vegas Invitational (without a full-strength team), they won the Big Ten Tournament, and they trounced nearly everyone on their dual meet schedule. But, they weren't able to beat Penn State in a dual meet and they fell agonizingly short of the national title, despite scoring 133.5 team points in Cleveland. 

To get a better sense of the ups and downs of the Buckeyes' season, we took each week's projected NCAA team tournament points based on our individual rankings from the entire season and plotted it on a graph. The annotated results are below. 

To see those week-by-week projected point totals in table form, see below.

Perhaps the most mind-boggling stat pertaining to the 2017-18 Buckeyes is that all 10 starters stayed ranked in the top 20 for the whole year. The same 10, wire-to-wire.

The lowest-ranked team member at any point in the season was Te'Shan Campbell who "only" managed a #15 ranking at 165 pounds after the NCAAs. 

The Cliff Keen Las Vegas Invitational in early December was about the high-water mark for Ohio State this season. The Buckeyes won with the three individual champs in one of the deepest and toughest fields of any in-season tournament. 

Ohio State didn't travel to a holiday tournament, but the Buckeyes more than made up for it with the CKLV and a brutal dual meet schedule that included every intraconference hammer and an extremely tough out-of-conference schedule that included Arizona State and North Carolina State. 

Ohio State's rankings regressed to the mean over the course of the dual-meet season, though winning the Big Tens with four champs provided a modest bump. Ultimately, OSU's performance at the NCAA tournament dropped it back down to slightly below where the team started in the preseason rankings.

So while it will be bittersweet for head coach Tom Ryan and the trio of four-time All-American seniors in Nathan Tomasello, Bo Jordan, and Kyle Snyder to look back on the season and see unfulfilled goals, the Buckeyes' 2017-18 campaign will nonetheless go down in history as one of the best non-NCAA championship-winning seasons ever.