Wing placement and area rule

Probably most everyone here knows about the area rule effect on transonic flight. So here is my question. Does wing placement have anything to do with the amount of area rule that is designed into a supersonic plane, and trasonic drag?

I look at an F-100, and the F8U Crusader. The F-100 has a mid placed wing, and the F8 has the wing placed on top of the fuselage. To the eye the F8 doesnt have nearly as much visible area rule. All of this centers around the fact that both aircraft weight about the same, and both have a J-57 engine. To be fair the J-57 in the F8 is a later dash model and does have more power. But————-the F8 is almost 300 mph faster than the F-100.

Further, most of the latest jets starting with the F-14 and F-15 and a lot of Russian fighter have the wing on top. So——are there any aero engineers here that can comment on this?