BigRedFan

One word: Mifflin. IYKYK.

I think Shapiro turned 19 this year (true freshman, no greyshirt year). He was a cadet in 2021, IIRC. But this document seems pretty clear, doesn't it?

Wouldn't Meyer Shapiro, the defending world champion at U20 70kg, be the guy sitting in the finals at WTT if he goes there?

Cornell, 1969 (pretty sure they've had one or two NCAA wrestling champions since that protest):

Chaz Tucker went 34-0 in the COVID year at 133, and he was probably shorter than everyone else.

Already announced: Cornell associate head coach Donnie Vinson.

If you sign up for text alerts, you can look back through your texting history to see the mat assignments for the matches you want. I did that for the NCAA tournament.

My violin teacher changed my lesson to Friday...at 10am (before I realized the OTT schedule). The plan is to fire up the Peacock multi-mat stream sometime after noon, start at the beginning, and switch to individual mat streams for the matches in which I have an interest. No wrestling fora for me until I catch up.

O'Malley was 3-1 against Foca in HS, and the only time they met in college Foca sustained a concussion and injury defaulted. So, 10-0 is like 3-1 for small values of 10 and large values of 0.

Simon Ruiz (greyshirt, so actually class of 2023?), probably starter for Cornell at 174. Beat Wolak, took Rocco Welsh to OT this past year.

Wasn't there some belief that Bassett would follow his buddies/relatives wherever they went? I may have gotten that wrong, of course!

First Cornell, then Penn State, now Rutgers? Heckuva trajectory for him. And will Erik Gibson see much action for Penn State at 165?

FFS. Did you see who was in Knox's corner? How about this simple explanation: Mike Grey, like probably all other coaches, brings a bunch of red and blue singlets whenever he goes to tournaments like this, and Knox needed a red singlet that fit him. Grey gave him one. While Vito (or his dad!) is undoubtedly the source of the singlet, that doesn't mean he gave it to Knox.

LOL yourself. How many national teams has Vito been on, and how many red/blue singlets do you think he owns?

Sometimes a singlet is just a singlet.

Knox is committed to Cornell. Cornell's Vito Arujau was born in Belarus. Connect the dots.

This is true. And Foca at least is sitting out fall semester 2024 in order to not graduate.

From Mike Grey's post-NCAA email update today: Ramirez: "He will be back and his best wrestling is ahead of him." Foca: "I know he is going to use this year as motivation for great offseason training. He will be back in the money next year!" Cardenas: "Jacob will graduate in May, and therefore cannot compete for Cornell next season. He will move on to another institution for graduate work and complete his last year of athletic eligibility. It's been a pleasure having Jacob represent Cornell University Wrestling and we wish him the best of luck!" Fernandes: No status, other than thanks! Lewis told me he was done and has a job on Wall Street. Sorry.

Actually being able to see it in either Flo's in-season or post-season tracker lists.

Not personal. I repeat the question: where did you see that Foca entered the portal?

Where does it say he entered the portal? He's not on Flo's list.

Foca is not graduating this year. He will be wrestling at Cornell in 2025 by deferring the fall semester.

Watching Vito destroy opponents, pushing for vital team points, is certainly worth more than 5x as much as watching Fix stall his way to a one point OT victory. The value of bonus points, in either bracket, was shown by all the wrestlers who were going for team trophies, or, in the case of Penn State, going for an historic team point total. Those matches were great to watch until the final whistle.