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One thing to remember is they also had the late scratch with Cornella who seemingly would have scored some amount of points. I just think for lack of transfer portal options, lack of traditional athletic scholarships, academic standards etc... It's amazing what they do there. They may never be on a list behind the likes of Penn state, Iowa, Ok St, Ohio state etc. for national titles but to always be right at the top in the mix is really something. Then you could go on about the international success the RTC has had as well. Its entirely possible although somewhat unlikely (assuming all weights are qualified) that half of the olympic team could be occupied by former Cornell wrestlers.

The whole tournament I was thinking Cornell was way under performing and was frustrated by it... for them to underperform as much as they did and still place 2nd is pretty insane...

This aged very well

Hahah hilarious

I'm always usually for the underdogs meaning I'll occasionally root for teams other than penn state but it's impossible not to root for MM.

When he pointed to the line at the center of the mat I got freaking goose bumps, he just seemed to be in a totally different place mentally... I do like crookham but he's very much a counter wrestler and getting behind on the scoreboard does not bode well for him especially against someone like Vito.

Absolutely beautiful by Vito when he locks in he is superhuman

I really hope Shapiro is the next Cornell 4 time champ

Didn't have Brock Mauller going 2 and out on my bingo card

Askey big brothered chittum only to be big bothered by Shapiro

Felt the same watching the end of that

Anyone feeling Abas here?

Outside of Yianni and Vito it has seemed to me the past few years that Cornell guys are lacking a bit in the size of their gas tanks

Crookham is just so stingy barley giving up anything

Did not expect McKee to get handled the way he did

Fireworks out of the gate, I'm betting on a big upset or two

He loves saying"Resilite" it would be like a college football analyst calling out the turf manufacturer every other time there was a big tackle on the field

Indeed

Foca wrestled the dumbest last 20 seconds I've ever seen... he's up by 3, gives up a stalling point and instead of just giving up another stalling point, basically stops wrestling and gives up the TD to lose by a point.... absolute stupidity

Mekhi v Starocci is going to be really interesting

Kinda brutal the lightest weights always have the shortest recovery period after weighins before competing. I wonder if the data would show that the majority of upsets come in the first few weight classes and if that could be a result of how guys respond to the weight cut?

If Askey went to penn state would he be a top 4 seed? I joke...kind of

Put it in the sparks-isms thread!

Chittum was getting a ton of love in all the media run up to the tournament and I hadn't seen much of him this year and I'm a little disappointed

App State came to wrestle today man... even the ones they've lost they've been competitive in every match