BigRedFan

If Yianni had to make 65kg on 12/10, he probably wouldn't be doing the WC, CKLV the week before, and the Collegiate National Duals the week after, unless he really felt comfortable wrestling "under weight" in folkstyle. Something would have to give, I would guess.

Was Askren joking when he said on Flo today that Sinclair was getting a knee replacement?

Cornell match notes posted on cornellbigred.com: 125 Brett Ungar (3-2) 133 #3 Vito Arujau (0-0) 141 #21 Vince Cornella (5-0) 149 #1 Yianni Diakomihalis (0-0) 157 Gage McClenahan (3-0) or Cole Handlovic (2-2) 165 #8 Julian Ramirez (4-1) 174 #9 Chris Foca (4-0) 184 #7 Jonathan Loew (4-0) 197 #20 Jacob Cardenas (0-0) #9 Lewis Fernandes (1-0) (next month, hopefully, for Yapoujian at 157)

Coach Grey just indicated in email that Cardenas will be there, and his brief discussion of Fernandes didn't mention any injury. No mention of Vito/Yianni/Yapoujian. Gonna be a great dual.

Forrest is a generational talent, despite his age.

You know where you might be able to get them? Internet Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20221027182934/https://intermatwrestle.com/rankings/college You put in a URL, and it will tell you every date that they crawled that URL. Click on the result, and you get the page and some links that may or may not be the most up-to-date.

Two things about Flo's review: From this weekend, it appears that Brett Ungar will be at 125 going forward: he majored LaJoie and nearly took out Jax Forrest; and Fernandes was limping a bit after his only match on Sunday, and didn't once throw boots in as is his modus operandi. They MFFed him (probably out of caution with his history of a bad knee) Ungar is an upgrade, and if Fernandes can't go, I don't know if they have another heavyweight (Furman is not enrolled this semester).

"grey shirting," I guess you mean. That thing that only Cornell is accused of abusing doing.

Did you read the article?

TIL that Meyer Shapiro, because he is from PA, pronounces his name "sha-PY-roh" (instead of the everywhere-else "sha-PEE-roh"). That's gonna throw off some announcers over the next five years.

We'll learn even more a week later, perhaps.

Lock Haven, Lehigh, whatevs.

No Ivy League athlete gets five years of Ivy League eligibility. Period. The only graduate students who were allowed to compete were those who were enrolled as seniors when all Ivy League competition was cancelled and who were accepted as graduate students at the same institution. They didn't get five years of Ivy eligibility. Enrolled uses up a year of eligibility. They made a one year exception as noted above.

157.

You are correct! 165: #16 John Jay Chavez (C) won by fall over Noah Grover (UB), 3:40 I love the crowd that, for just a moment, thought Grover was going huge. Unfortunately, they were right.

Piling on: did you read the article? There was a one year exception, which allowed *seniors* that year to compete *only the following year and only at that institution* as graduate students. As the article indicated, this decision came too late for most seniors. At Princeton, it came after the deadline for applying to Princeton graduate schools, and Princeton refused to change the deadline to accommodate these students. One Cornell student (Adam Santoro) took advantage of that. Any Ivy athlete with *NCAA* eligibility left at graduation is and always has been free to transfer outside the Ivy League and compete as a graduate student eslewhere (see Patrick Brucki graduating from Princeton and competing for Michigan).

Jon Jay Chavez was an AA for Cornell and qualified for the Senior World Championships in Greco (withdrew due to injury). Just for grins to see what a Greco specialist brings to folkstyle, go to 1:25:45 in this video (with audio for the crowd reaction): Cornell vs Buffalo

No. Yianni's last year of eligibility is this year, no matter where he attends school. He doesn't get the COVID year of eligibility, because he *wasn't* on the roster that year (nor enrolled in school) (https://cornellbigred.com/sports/wrestling/roster/2020-21). Only those who competed in 20-21 got the "free" year. The Ivy League changed "4 years out of 5" to "4 years out of 6" due to the COVID year, but it is still four years, and the NCAA free year doesn't apply to him (and Vito and Max Dean, each of whom sat out that year).

In short, yes.

How things change. Steen instead of Howard, Barraclough instead of Haines...

I just looked it up, being the skeptic that I am. 33% of public school students complete in four years, while 52% of private school students do so.

My uninformed guess is that he didn't get accepted at Penn.

Commitment #3 (Illinois, then Penn, now Okie State). "Commitment"

Huh? NCAA champion over (wrestlestat ranked) #161 RS freshman? Champ. Round 2 - Shane Griffith (Stanford) 2-0 won by decision over Cash Stewart (Cal Poly SLO) 1-1 (Dec 4-1)

Only if he gets hurt in the second or third period...