BigRedFan

So, not really a wrestle-off, is it?

Curious about what a "wrestle-off" means. What does the winner get? A starting spot? For how long? How does the starting spot ever change, barring injury or other unforeseen event? Does the team that has a wrestle-off hold challenge matches before each match?

Misleading: Yianni, Vito, and Teemer agreed to go different weights so each could win a state title.

Flo posted video from Belgrade that showed Vito with a sweatshirt covered by a plastic shirt, putting on *another* sweatshirt. Not to mention the multiple plastic hoods. Whatever water weight he needed to lose didn't seem to affect him, however.

Cornell 184: 2002: Wattenberg 5th 2003: Wattenberg 6th 2005: Baier 2nd 2006: Mazzurco 6th 2007: Arnone: 8th 2011: Bozak 4th 2012: Bozak 1st 2013: Bozak 3rd 2014: Dean 3rd 2015: Dean 1st 2016: Dean 1st 2017: Dean 2nd 2018: other Dean 8th 2019: other Dean 2nd 2020/2021: N/A 2022: Loew 8th No contest for winner or 2nd.

The Pan-Am Qualifier is the week before the EIWA tournament, by the way. In addition, if Vito wants to wrestle there, he'll have to compete in a mini-tournament and then a best-of-three against Richards, or a mini-tournament against challengers if Richards for some reason chooses not to compete. Which means Vito would have to potentially make 57kg once before the PA Qualifying tourney, and again at the tournament, and again at the OTT in April. More likely is that he waits to see if Richards or someone else qualifies the US at the PA tourney. If not, he plans on winning the OTT and then going to the World Qualifying tournament (in May?) to get the US qualified.

Shapiro is still going to be an eighteen (or maybe nineteen) year old kid, his results notwithstanding. Any special reason Vito doesn't make the trip to North Carolina? If he doesn't wrestle 133 at any time, it is likely Ethan Fernandez who would go. Greg D. and Ungar are too small to go 133, IMO.

Hmm... Ed Scott (NC State) over Meyer Shapiro (Cornell) DEC 14 - 8 Dylan Fishback (NC State) over Jonathan Loew (Cornell) DEC 7 - 6 184 and bonus points (look for Arujau, Ramirez, and Foca to tech fall or pin, instead of just D/MD their opponents)

I didn't know that, or I wouldn't have asked. Sometimes you have to accept what people say they mean, rather than assume whatever you want. With all the nonsense going on within their program, anything could be possible. Maybe they didn't want to wrestle the first semester with all those suspended guys missing. Maybe, like UNI, they lost their wrestling facility and have to scramble to find another place (that's a joke, by the way). I don't follow Iowa wrestling after I was booted from the cesspool for (AFAIK) questioning Spencer Lee's godliness.

Did you notice the title of this thread?

I did not, but to post a partial schedule is, well, stupid.

https://hawkeyesports.com/sports/wrestling/schedule/ Five duals and the B1G and NCAA tournaments?

FWIW, Fernandes was battling injuries and didn't finish the year.

Remains to be seen. Everyone seems to think it is a done deal he'll be at 157. (FWIW, they have #14 Facundo over #5 Ramirez, despite the former's 12-2 NCAA tourney loss to the latter)

But not all of them, apparently (Meyer Shapiro?).

This year will be Vito's seventh year, not eighth.

According to the Ivy League, an ORS is just a year not enrolled in school.

Glad I had a defibrillator at hand.

You say that as if it is a done deal. He's still on the roster, which he would not be were he taking an ORS (and therefore not enrolled at Cornell). You know something that we don't? I *think* the Ivy League rule was "four seasons in five years," which was changed to "four in six" for the COVID-cancelled year. An ORS this year would be his sixth year, and I don't think he'd be allowed back for a "four in seven" even if he hadn't graduated by then. My guess is that he wrestles for Cornell this year; if he doesn't, he would have to wrestle somewhere else. Maybe he does graduate work at Lehigh? (edit) Here's a bit from Harvard's web site:

A little too early to be drinking, isn't it?

Intermat has zero points for Cornell at 149 and 157, and only 2.5 points out of 2nd place. Meyer Shapiro would like a word...

FFS, if you had said "always in the top ten", you'd be correct. Feel free to argue with yourself (or claim victory) over the meaning of "consistently."

You win. Cornell sucks at everything except wrestling.

You asked "are there any other sports where Cornell is consistently top 10 in the country". I answered correctly: these teams have been consistently in the top ten.

Heck: men's and women's ice hockey; men's lacrosse; men's and women's squash.