One of the nation's best big men has put out his school list. Below are the final five for Nate Schon (Selinsgrove, PA).

Nate Schon School List

• Rutgers
• Pitt
• Ohio State
• NC State
• Penn

Most of these programs are in the market for a heavyweight, which is where Schon sees himself in college after spending his first three years in high school at 220 pounds. He's placed every year in AAA at the Pennsylvania state tournament, finishing eighth as a freshman, winning the title as a sophomore, and making the finals this season.

Rutgers used sophomore Alex Esposito at Big Tens, though they also have three years left of Kyle Lightner, but he only wrestled nine matches this season. They'd only be about three hours from home and would allow Schon to wrestle a Big Ten schedule. However, they already have an excellent big man committed from the 2021 class in Kyonte Hamilton. The National Prep champ is ranked second at 220 and is #4 on the Junior Big Board.

Pitt is a bit of a wildcard, with Colby Whitehill coming in from their 2020 recruiting class to replace graduated senior and new Pittsburgh Wrestling Club member Demetrius Thomas. Schon finished #14 in our 220lb rankings, while Whitehill was seventh at 285. The two never wrestled in high school.

Ohio State has already picked up a verbal from the #7 junior in the country in Paddy Gallagher, so Schon would give them another blue-chip from this class. Columbus would be a good fit as he could take over for transfer Tate Orndorff after a redshirt year, allowing Orndorff to finish out his eligibility and Gavin Hoffman to close out his career at 197.

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The rising senior, who also plays football and may be interesting in trying to do both sports at the next level, has already taken visits to Rutgers and Pitt. Ohio State was supposed to be his next visit prior to travel being shut down due to COVID-19, and he is also hoping to take visits to Philadelphia and Raleigh.

Pennsylvania has long been a fertile recruiting ground for the ACC, and the Wolfpack currently have two starters from there in the Hidlay brothers. Their high school is about an hour away from Selinsgrove. If Schon went there and redshirted it'd allow Deonte Wilson to graduate, but that would coincide with Owen Trephan's junior year.

Schon, who is our 30th-rated prospect on the 2021 Big Board, is also considering staying in-state to get an Ivy League education at Penn. The Quakers' current heavyweight Ben Goldin would be gone, but their best 285lb recruit from a year ago in Joey Slackman would be a junior. Slackman had a 6-7 record this year.

Lineup-wise, Ohio State probably makes the most sense, though they did have Nick Boykin redshirting this year. The development of Trephan and Slackman will also come into play, which will be harder to quantify the longer this quarantine goes on and difficult to gauge before signing begins on November 11, 2020.