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taste of his own medicine! but, it is a bummer: CR at 15 and a 10-4 record at 141 is .714 but one match short of RPI and the cutoff was (per SHP) .720.

$%#@! i just want to finish my stupid little chart for the cornell forum!

to be fair the one screaming was me

oh look it's the guy reasonably bringing facts to a screamfest

HOW IS THIS NOT ALREADY FINISHED, NCAA STATGOBLINS? JUST HIT PUBLISH!

they're always expected at 10ish and always kinda late

All D1, but WS will include matches against D2/D3/Juco/NAIA if they happen to be in an Open, but they don't count towards WS's best guess at matches that count for NCAA purposes.

honestly nobody really knows where anyone stands with their classes. we know when they started, we know what class they are listed with on the roster... and we never know what it means with respect to graduation.

This has to be it. We are discussing on the Cornell forum that WS has Greg D. at #10 for 125 and that has to be because he pinned Terukina and just majored Sotelo. His profile isn't otherwise all that great (three losses to Ungar, Miller and Lujan) for someone in the top 10. Not a world-beater schedule or anything but he did go 15-0 last year wrestling for SCRTC. And, in keeping with the "bonus points matter" thesis, a lot of falls and techs in that record.

Beard got gassed at EIWA and then flopped at NCAAs but the tools are very good. If his health/fitness are in form in March he's incredibly dangerous.

Shapiro was trying to reverse from a restart and Andonian's leg/foot was caught when Shapiro tossed him over, and something went wrong in his knee. Any word from VT on Andonian? Great dual overall but there are a lot of guys (Ungar, Cornella, Fernandes) who need to get a little more committed to scoring. These sub 5-point matches are unsustainable and way too high-variance.

please give this speech as a sermon i don't care

That's a very reasonable claim.

I don't know when you attended but this is the opposite of what it was like when i was there (early 90's). It seemed like half the English department was ex-engineers because the first couple of years in Engineering are BRUTAL. Transferring into Engineering is rare because the intro courses weed out a substantial number of students who wanted to be engineers from the jump. People who want to transfer would have to run that gauntlet too. There's a quasi-tradition of architecture students getting a going-away party on the last day of student orientation from the people in their dorm because they are about to disappear into studio like a hibernating bear without the sleep. I have no idea how a wrestler can shoulder the architecture courseload and wonder if they are urban planning students, rather than architects or artists.

fragged from all sides

NoCo had a lot of wrestlers registered for the Hastings Open but ended up only sending two (AFAICT), including a 165 other than Baylor Fernandes. Aside from that, there was no post-Scuffle contest in which Fernandes could have wrestled before the decision was made. I am sure Mama Lillard's reaction was considered in the decision but I don't think the time taken was unreasonable. People always want snap reactions but the wiser course is to be slow, deliberate and make sure you've considered more angles than the catharsis from Doing Something immediately. NoCo had more to consider than just Lillard and Fernandes. I think removing him from the team was the right decision but I don't know why it had to be made faster than it was or what we gain from speculation that this or that proves that it was CYA rather than a sincere decision arrived at using a genuine institutional process.

Ivy and EIWA will both get AQs. The brand of EIWA is badly hurt with the Ivy defection and, as an Ivy guy, I will miss the fun of the bigger touranment even with the weak bottom of the conference. Even when Cornell was clearly the deepest team (or one of two deep teams, not trying to pick a fight with Lehigh right now, especially after their tournament run), it was GOOD to have to try to beat guys from schools that had only one or two guys in the top-tier of the conference like (and I'm throwing out names at random here because they popped into my head), O'Malley, Greiss and baby Gwiz. When EWL was left with only small schools, it collapsed into the MAC. Time will tell if EIWA suffers the same fate.

This sucks, man.

I don't disbelieve Coach Grey but I still don't think we're beating the quacking allegations. I think at best he was being extreeeeeemely conservative in a high-profile event. The tough matches that unavoidably had to happen, happened: Cornella needed the rematch with Echemendia - even though it went just as poorly as R1. Foca needed to wrestle Feldkamp after the debacle at LV even after beating Heller. Fernandes needed to test himself against at least one of Pitzer and Bastida. At 197, Cardenas was the one with the missing opponent, though Broderson didn't wrestle in Nashville at all. Nobody cares what Cornell does at 149 or 174 (sorry guys, no offense!). As for the rest, you can make a case for all but ... I'm not surprised that people are skeptical. Here we go in weight order, not order of justification: Ungar looked like an early 2022 version of himself against Camacho trying to get off bottom after being reversed (though I continue to think that staying in the backpack position on top, with the top wrestler clinging on to a standing opponent like a capuchin baby should be considered an escape). Since Greg D. is a quality backup who needs more mat time, his appearance didn't shock me and his win more than justified the decision. Arujau had a long injury layoff, skipping LV entirely, so I am less surprised if he skipped the match because he aggravated whatever caused the long layoff. I don't think he was ducking Frost. Apparently the rematch at Sheridan (Lehigh) isn't going to happen... but Crookham isn't wrestling either, and McGonagle is going 141 and it might be a wrestle-off with Hines due to the embarrassment of riches in Bethlehem at 133/141. Shapiro's dominant win over Bianchi probably took some of the pressure off of feeling that he needed to wrestle Chittum but it still was weird to see him skip it. He certainly didn't seem any worse for wear at the end. Especially if he wasn't actually injured in LV! Was shocked that this match didn't happen. Ramirez definitely tweaked something near the end of the Heller match. It was a messed up scramble with all the legs looking like the tails of a rat king at the end. Both guys came out of it limping and shaking it off. Not the best condition to fight David Carr and I think people are probably definitely right if they say he'd wrestle if it were NCAAs and probably right if the next dual was against, say, Brown. Not seeing this match kinda hurt even though it was the most obvious of the four match-cancelling injuries.

To answer my own question - Shawn Kenney and Ryan Holmes.

Who are the guys calling the Cornell-Pitt dual? I recognize one of them (never remember his name) but they are really good together.

Ungar got the escape, Camacho got a reversal and rideout. Good hard ride from Camacho.

Cornell v UALR Ungar 7-3 over Reno Vito 4-0 over N. Bailey (penalty point against UALR) Cornella 17-1 tech over Van Hoecke Fernandez 14-13 over Dutton (came back from down 0-7) Shapiro 8-1 over Bianchi Ramirez Fall over B. Bailey Brennan Fall over Baker (UALR's first points) Wills 5-0 over Hansen (UALR back to back,; no Foca) Cardenas Fall over Little (!!!) Fernandes 5-0 over Hill 32-8 final, accounting for the penalty point.

if hillbillies are starting to pronounce jewish names i'm already driving away

AJ seemed like a good teammate but kind of an egotistical jackass.