Wrestling at Nationals

[Jacob '06]

The wrestling team picks up a steal from Lehigh's recruiting class from this year.

http://www.dailyrecord.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2006608220341

Grey only lost twice in high school, and if I remember correctly both of those losses occured in the Beast of the East tournament. He will be starting in 2007

[ithacat]

Very nice pickup...but it sounds like a curious story.

Frey & Grey at 133?

[Jacob '06]

[quote ithacat]Frey & Grey at 133?[/quote]

When I saw Grey wrestle 2 years ago he was pretty small. He may be able to get down to 125, but he also may have grown since then and not have a chance of doing that. I think the story is pretty curious too. Delbarton does have a bit of a Cornell connection though, John Cholish who graduated in '06 was a delbarton kid. (I wrestled in morris county NJ, thats how I know about these kids)

[Al DeFlorio]

Lots of talk on this Lehigh forum: http://wrestlingreport.com/current/viewforum.php?f=15&sid=8a7dcc869b15fd0b3f1150ce56324073

Regarding his wrestling weight, here's the Lehigh coach quoted in an Intermat article:  "It's one of those things that we'd never recruited Mike to be a 125 pounder," said Strobel. "It's about getting him bigger and stronger instead of being a weight-cutter. With the weight program we were going to put him on, I really saw him in a couple years being a 141-pounder."

[ugarte]

My impression* from the article is that he didn't want to sit behind Nickerson After being assured that he wouldn't wrestle in Nickerson's weight class he opted for Cornell.

* Read: rank speculation

[Al DeFlorio]

Early 2006-7 rankings: http://www.wrestlingreport.com/college/rank/ncaa_rank.htm

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

Minnesota #1?  Now that just sucks. ::twitch::

[billhoward]

[quote Jeff Hopkins '82]Minnesota #1?  Now that just sucks. ::twitch::[/quote]

And their home site mats are probably wider.

[ithacat]

[quote Jeff Hopkins '82]Minnesota #1?  Now that just sucks...[/quote]

I beg to differ, #22 just sucks.

[Trotsky]

[quote billhoward]And their home site mats are probably wider.[/quote]
Nice. :-}