BigRedFan

The coincidence being that the two 4xers at Cornell both trained at Cornell prior to matriculating at Cornell. This in response to your question about whether their freshman year wins had anything to do with Cornell:

Yianni had been working with the Cornell staff since junior high school (not to mention training with Vito for years), IIRC. Dake was local to Ithaca, so also spent lots of time there. Coincidence? Off-topic trivia question: who gave Vito his only high school loss?

This is Penn State! It's what they do!

You know what is dominant? Beating everyone. Only Sanderson has done it better than Yianni. Dominant is never losing in the NCAA tournament, and your conference tournament, and your league, and every tournament you ever entered in college. Yianni could only beat those in front of him ("run-of-the-mill competition"). His freshman year run through Heil, Eierman, and Meredith was as difficult as anyone's. Pretty sure that what anyone achieved in freestyle has f*** all to do with the 4x NCAA champion achievement.

Not a bad performance by a team that was missing four expected pre-season starters by the end of the year (including a returning AA), and only brought seven qualifiers to the tournament. Two champions: one a 4xer, one beating a 2x defending champion. Third place beat a former NCAA champion (Foca over Lewis). Four AAs.

"Arujau was named Outstanding Wrestler of the NCAA Championships, and Cornell coach Mike Grey was named tournament Coach of the Year."

Second row, third from the left.

Doubtful.

Why are you still reading this thread, then?

That’s not what Stormy said.

Yes

While I agree that the EIWA (not just the Ivy League teams) aren't a threat, Cornell returns everyone except Yianni, who will be replaced with possibly the #1 recruit in the country as a true freshman. They also might get three of their injured starters back next year. Threat to PSU? Probably not.

Whoever wins the last match of the tournament earns the third place trophy. Simple.

Shocking development.

Remind me again: when was the last time he said something truthful?

Something about those bright lights?

Vito's major of Fix was Fix's first loss by bonus in his college career.

Six. The just went 1 for 5 in the consolation semi-finals. Ouch.

ESPN just announced that PSU/Iowa/tOSU/Cornell can't be caught. tOSU and Cornell now tied at 67.5. How big is that Yianni/Sasso match tonight?

Yeah, that was a mistake. I guess Brands lost that new-found offense after that one TD. Iowa finally wins one this morning with Big Tony.

Adam Coon wants a word...

One of Cornell's returning AAs got injured this year and didn't finish the season. They went from three AAs last year to four AAs this year. Isn't that "going in the right direction?"

Found on Twitter. Don't know who is this guy:

Penn has Burroughs at RTC and Mark Hall in the corner. Penn went 6-16 on the weekend, with nobody going past consolation round 3.

Vito outscored opponents 43-18 RBY 27-10