Wrestling 2019-20

[ugarte]

165 - No ranked wrestler. Probably Andrew Berreyesa again, who I assume is working on attacking and defending legs.

Don't forget Julian Ramirez.

ooooh true.

[George64]

Nice article about Yanni in the Rochester D&C.

[mountainred]

Rob Koll just circulated this quick video on incoming (Class of '24) recruits: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VP1kuYqhuvM.  Two notes:

First, no Greg D, which seemingly confirms the reports that he is taking a grey shirt season.
Second, it does list include Jacob Cardenas, which would seem to contradict the rumors that he has decided to go to Ariz. St.

Of course, who knows when there will actually be a season.  Koll's email said he had a schedule ready, "but due to other schools budget cut-backs and travel restrictions many changes have to be made."

[klehner]

There's a nice long interview with Vito on Flo.  Talks about a bunch of stuff you might find interesting.

[ugarte]

Flo had a wrestling card and two Cornell guys were on it.

Vito Arujau '22* faced Rutgers Soph Sammy Alvarez. Alvarez wrestles at 133; Arujau will probably go 125 again but might wrestle at 133 this year. They wrestled this tournament closer to their walking around weights, because the wrestlers weren't going to cut for an out of season competition, at 140. Alvarez weighed in at 140 on the dot and Arujau came in at 138.6. Arujau gave up a 4 point move and they went into the break with Alvarez up 5-3. The second period was all Arujau, though, and with a late score pushed the final to 16-5 and a win on Technical Superiority.
 
Kyle Dake '13 wrestled in the main event against Frank Chamizo (Italy by way of Cuba). Chamizo is a 4x Euro champion, 2015 (65Kg) and 2017 (70kg) world champion, 2019 world silver (74kg); 2016 Olympic bronze medalist (65kg). Dake is also a 2x World Champion, winning 2018 and 2019 at 79kg. They wrestled at 79 kg, but if they meet again at the Olympics, it will be down at 74 because 79 is not an Olympic weight (and US qualification is going to be a meat grinder). With the match tied at 1, Chamizo got a 2 point takedown but Dake reversed (for 1) and added a gut-wrench to expose Chamizo's back (for 2). That 4-3 score ended up being the final, but not without a scare for Dake. With 6 seconds left Chamizo nearly got a takedown for 2 and then nearly got a step-out for 1 (and the victory on criteria) and frankly it's incredible that Dake was able to defend until time ran out.

Two big wins for the Cornell family on a fun card that I still can't believe happened.

* '23 probably, since he took an Olympic redshirt to train last year. He finished 3d at the US Senior Nationals, qualifying for the Olympic Team Trials.

[upprdeck]

i saw cornell announced the wrestling class of 24 guys today.

[ugarte]

i saw cornell announced the wrestling class of 24 guys today.

going to optimistically start a new thread for the new year...