Chalk another big one up for Urban Meyer and the Buckeyes.

The 247Sports Composite’s top-ranked offensive tackle Nicholas Petit-Frere will play his college football at Ohio State.

A five-star recruit out of Tampa (Fla.) Berkley Prep, the 6-foot-6, 272-pound Petit-Frere also considered Alabama, Florida, Michigan and Notre Dame, and took official visits to each school.

But it was the Buckeyes that got the last official visit, and after taking a day or two to sort it out, was where Petit-Frere felt the most comfortable.

“He’s very, very thorough in trying to find the right place for him,” Berkley Prep each Dominick Ciao said. Greg Schiano was the lead recruiter for OSU and has ties to Berkley Prep and the prowess of Meyer and the rest of the staff secured one of the biggest recruiting wins in the country in the final hours of the 2018 recruiting cycle.

Petit-Frere was seeking the perfect fit. He took his first official visit to Notre Dame back in October for the Irish’s win over USC. He was in Ann Arbor when Michigan played Ohio State and fast forward to the last three weekends he took officials to Tuscaloosa, Gainesville and then Columbus in that order.

“Football is very, very important to him and so is school and the community and I think he wants to be part of the whole college experience,” Ciao said.

Petit-Frere ranks as the nation’s No. 7 recruit regardless of position and becomes the jewel of an Ohio State haul that now has 12 recruits ranked inside the Top100 of the 247Sports Composite. The Buckeyes add the prospect with perhaps the highest-ceiling in this entire 2018 class in Petit-Frere who will easily add 25-pounds plus to his already muscular frame. Petit-Frere has the feet, frame and toughness to be a dominate player at the point of attack.

“He’s just one of the tremendous finishers,” Ciao said. “One of the great linemen that I’ve coached. Just great quickness, fierce competitor, relentless finisher, agile pass protectors. He has all the skills to become really a special one.”