Cornell Kevin

One thing I noticed which was nuts was Campbell’s 125 pounder Anthony Molton. He went to Old Dominion out of high school…dropped program He then went to Fresno state from there..dropped program. He ends up at Campbell and we all know how darn close they were to dropping their program. As far as 3, some come to mind right away …. Austin Gomez comes to mind with Iowa St, Wisconsin, Michigan Parco with Fresno State, Arizona St, Iowa Buchanan with Wyoming, Oklahoma, and Iowa.

Yianni D was never pinned correct. He was 115-2. Only 2 losses.. True freshman year was up 4-1 on Jayden Eierman. with riding time locked in with 30 sec to go. Very questionable reversal call for Eierman which they reviewed. Eierman then cut him making it 5-3 Yianni (6-3 with riding time). Yianni had no stall warnings and instead of just avoiding him the last 15 seconds, Yianni took a very ill advised shot, got cradled and lost 9-6. Yianni would defeat Eierman the next 3x they wrestled. Other loss I was unfortunate to be at vs Austin Gomez. This came 9 months after Yianni had just majored him in Wisconsin. Yianni’s 1st match of the year after just winning a world silver and a couple weeks prior to wrestling 65kg (143 lbs) at the world cup. First period Yianni in deep on two singles (“watch his knee watch his knee” both stopped for potential dangerous). It all came down to one seat belt position which Gomez is best at. Final 9-5. That ended his 75 match win streak which left him two shy of Kyle Dake at 77. Had he been able to pull that match out (or not wrestled it at all as he was originally supposed to not wrestle till after the world cup cause he was keeping his weight down to 65kg) he would have had a steak of 95/96. Woulda coulda shoulda right? Yianni has not only not been bonused in HS or college, he also had never been pinned to tech falled ever in Freestyle which is quite amazing if you think about it having wrestled 80 senior level matches. FYi Yianni HS record was 243-3 with his only 3 losses coming as an under weighed 7th grader. From that point on (8th grade thru Junior year) He would then whip off a state record 221 straight wins and 4 state titles before missing his senior year to have surgeries on both elbows. Had he not he would have absolutely won a 5th state title and won another 40+ matches. High school record. 243-3 NCAA record. 115-2 Overall folk style 358-5 ** He has no red shirt losses either as he had no official red shirt as Cornell being in IVY doesn’t allow it and he had no Folk matches in his two olympic shirt years*+ While I am on the Yianni topic I hear a lot of “well it took him 8 years to win those 4 titles.” That’s bs He was at Cornell for 6 years and he won his first two titles as a true freshman and true sophomore. That God he took an olympic shirt the next year because the ncaa canceled due to covid so he would have been SOL. Then thank God the olympics were postponed allowing him to take another olympic shirt cause the IVY league canceled their season and again he would have been SOL. He then came back to finish his junior and senior year. So he was in school only one year longer than the 4xers prior to him (besides Dake who did it in 4 years) and it wasn’t as if he had a choice. Ok sorry for running off on Yianni tangent on that one.

No love for Rob Koll?

Can i get on a wait list ?

Very well said, and I agree. I feel like he is the true king of "excuses are for wusses,' as while Spencer was saying that, he was telling the world about his injury. You never hear boo from Yianni in regards to his injuries. A good portion of those Yianni injuries were smack dab in the middle of the Yianni/Zane Final X debacle. Just kidding about Spencer, he is obviously tough as nails. I just like how Yianni never even speaks of this.

The most recent one was to repair his labrum which was his 9th surgery in last 7 years. He has had both right and left elbow ( Senior year of high school which prevented him from winning his 5th straight NYS title and 4th super 32 title, which still has not been done. Then he had acl surgery on his knee from the Quarterfinal NCAA match vs Dean Heil his true freshman year at Cornell. He then had a meniscus surgery summer of 2019. Then he had a Bakers cyst surgery January of 2020. That developed into a dangerous infection in his leg that blew his leg up and could have killed him but was able to have surgery on that June of 2020. He had a couple other growth plate surgeries as well I believe. You just do not hear much about it as a result of this kid being that tough. I don't think people realize how tough this kid really is.

He is going to wrestle 70kg for the foreseeable future. When 2028 comes, he will hurdle that obstacle. He is recovering from surgery on torn labrum. I know many people wrote him off but it is foolish to. He is the only American wrestler for team usa to have earned a medal at 65kg in the last 20 years. He won a silver and then was in final X and that call vs Nick Lee being reversed was a killer. Not to mention his ill advised decision to shoot so late in march #1 with the lead. If he had won that he was the #2 seed at that worlds on the much less competitive seabass side of bracket. He had teched seabass the year prior in a min and without a doubt makes the world final again. Instead rather he doesn’t go to worlds, he wrestles Nick Lee off for pan am spot and after leading early hits his head and is done. He had a hell of a time sucking weight to make it for the trials which hindered his performance there no doubt. A whole lot of bad forks in the road you could say. He isn’t done though he will be back this year!!

This is the actual link to the Cornell and Binghamton dual today (Saturday) at 2pm ET. The link above just keeps spinning. There is no little lock symbol by the dual so assuming that it is free https://americaeast.com/watch/default.aspx?Live=16534

link for Cornell @ Mizzou https://www.espn.com/watch/roadblock?id=716a9c4f-261e-4bcc-9715-012aab884a02&fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR3pLRlHzTMaigIgd_n1c4yOtv0hB-4wv5zmCN-trQqMmtIUlD2JfqYcaqY_aem_juEWtXeVLF_F95RZfSh37A&om-navmethod=espn:globalsearch:results

I know Cornell recruited him and they were one of his final choices but fell short. As soon as Ryder committed I knew Penn St was a lock for him. Guys have been friends their entire life. He transferred schools going from Carmel to Minisink Valley (after pinning his way through states as a 7th grader on varsity going 51-0) in order to train with Ryder. Ryder committed to Penn St, then Duke. Ryder forwent his senior year of high school to train at Penn St, sure we will hear Duke doing the same in the upcoming weeks.

Vito missing always stings. Cornell is 11-4 on the year and Vito missing all 4 losses. The difference with this door was had Vito been in Cornell. Still loses the match if Vito is in against Ohio State and Lehigh, they only lost two by one point each, and clearly Cornell wins. Those two is him being out in those two matches were at the very least of nine point swing had Vito been in against Iowa State along with having Meyer and Ramirez and then Cornell Wednesday match to when you do the math on it, this one, not a chance

Cardenas was a U23 Bronze this year, and U23 Silver last year..never won a Gold. Cornella was really hurt, had to be carried off the mat vs Mizzou cause of Knee. I was at the match and I’m honestly surprised that he’s gonna be back for Binghamton tomorrow so the only other guy missing from Cornell is Vito. I know a lot of people act as if Cornell’s was missing half their line up, but thats not the case. One could argue that really, it was just Vito missing because I’m not sure Cornella would’ve done much better than Saunders did against Jack. But Cornell had 8 starters in

An absolute horrific example of this issue took place at Final X in regards to comparing the calls of the Yianni/Lee and Richards/Gilman matches. Not only were the grounded situations called in a consistent manner, but they actually penalized a wrestler who was grounded and did not penalize a wrestler who should have been. Richards who was getting backed out of bounds by Gilman literally just dropps to both knees intentionally to avoid push out point. What do they call ? Just call grounded. So no point awarded to Gilman, and they start back center mat. What should they have called ? Should have been a caution 1 against Richards and he should have then started down in parterre position center mat. Nick Lee is pushing Yianni back and Yianni attacks the same way he has a million times before where he fakes a shot right and tries to duck left. Nick Lee ultimately blocks the duck sending Yianni to his knees. Even then , Yianni attempts another shot from his knees to the right and Lee pushes Yianni out of bounds while Yianni is grounded . What do they call ? They caution -1 Yianni and have him start parterre center mat. This not only gives Lee a point but then he got 2 more points from that parterre with a trap arm followed by Yianni getting 1 point reversal. This decided the match as the final was 7-6. Lee should have not gotten the 1 point for caution 1 and should not have been in the position to get the 2 point exposure. Yianni would in turn not get the 1 point reversal. that’s a 2 point swing Yianni’s way in a 1 point loss. Now who is to say that the rest of the match doesn’t end differently if Lee is down instead of up in score. Bottom line, we will never know cause the officials screwed it up. This should have been called grounded as him being on his knees was a result of Lee’s defense against Yianni’s offensive action. It would be one thing if they both did what Richards did (going to his knees intentionally to be grounded ) and they called it two different ways in each match. It is another thing altogether when they call both scenarios wrong opposite of each other.