Big Athletics Night - Wrestling on CSTV

[ebilmes]

From Athletics email...

No. 12 Cornell Wrestling vs. No. 18 Penn
- This match will be broadcast live on CSTV.
- The winner of this match has won the Ivy League championship for 19 straight years.
7 PM in the Friedman Wrestling Center

Men's Basketball vs. Brown
7 PM at Newman Arena in Bartels Hall

[Al DeFlorio]

[quote ebilmes]From Athletics email...

No. 12 Cornell Wrestling vs. No. 18 Penn
- This match will be broadcast live on CSTV.
[/quote]
I believe it's being broadcast "live" only on CSTV's wonderful All-Access.  It will be shown Monday night at 9pm on CSTV television--as I understand it.

[Al DeFlorio]

All-Access appears to be showing the CSTV broadcast that will be aired Monday night at 9 on television.

[Jordan 04]

[quote ebilmes]
- The winner of this match has won the Ivy League championship for 19 straight years.
[/quote]

Huh?

[jkahn]

Cornell 28 - Penn 13 final

[Robb]

[quote Jordan 04][quote ebilmes]
- The winner of this match has won the Ivy League championship for 19 straight years.
[/quote]

Huh?[/quote]

This:

1986-87      Cornell
1987-88      Cornell
1988-89      Cornell
1989-90      Cornell
1990-91      Cornell
1991-92      Cornell
1992-93      Cornell
1993-94      Penn
1994-95      Cornell
1995-96      Penn
1996-97      Penn
1997-98      Penn
1998-99      Penn, Cornell
1999-00      Penn
2000-01      Cornell, Harvard, Penn
2001-02      Penn
2002-03      Cornell
2003-04      Cornell
2004-05      Cornell
2005-06      Cornell

Ok, so Harvard snuck in there in '01, but the winner fo the Cornell/Penn match was still one of the the champions.

[Jordan 04]

Got it.

I didn't realize that the 2 schools have dominated likethis.  Not knowing that this is usually the decisive match, the sentence was extremely confusing.

[Al DeFlorio]

[quote Jordan 04]Got it.

I didn't realize that the 2 schools have dominated likethis.  Not knowing that this is usually the decisive match, the sentence was extremely confusing.[/quote]
Speaking of "dominating,"  wrestling beat poor Princeton 56-0 today.  Max score is 60, if you pin (or receive forfeits from) all ten opponent wrestlers.

[mttgrmm]

it's been a long time since high school wrestling, so i have a silly question  about points.

IIRC, the match points are something like:

3 for decision
5 for tech fall
6 for pin/forfeit

is that true?  i just dont really remember...

[ugarte]

[quote mttgrmm]it's been a long time since high school wrestling, so i have a silly question  about points.

IIRC, the match points are something like:

3 for decision
5 for tech fall
6 for pin/forfeit

is that true?  i just dont really remember...[/quote]4 for major decision (+8 points, IIRC). I believe a tech fall is +15.

The Big Red got 7 pins (Troy Nickerson dropped his opponent in 27 seconds), 1 forfeit, 1 technical fall and 1 plain ol' win.

[RichH]

[quote Al DeFlorio]Speaking of "dominating,"  wrestling beat poor Princeton 56-0 today. [/quote]

That may be the first time the adjective "poor" has ever been used to describe Princeton.

[profudge]

Just an Update on Troy Nickerson:  (from Binghamton paper)

After winning the Northern Plains Senior Regional Championship, Troy Nickerson is moving on to one of wrestling's biggest stages.

Nickerson, a Chenango Forks graduate and sophomore at Cornell, is scheduled to take part at the U.S. World Team Trials in Las Vegas from June 9-10.

Nickerson is wrestling at 132 pounds in the men's freestyle division. The winner of each weight class in Vegas will make the 2007 U.S. World Team and wrestle at the world championships in Azerbaijan in September.

"This is the top of the ladder right now," Nickerson said. "It doesn't get any higher than this. I'm looking forward to getting some new competition and seeing how I can compete at that level."

Nickerson earned a spot at the U.S. trials by taking first at the Northern Plains Senior Regional Championships in Waterloo, Iowa earlier this month. He was unscored upon in the tournament, beating Corey Jantzen, the top-ranked high school wrestler in the nation, 6-0, 1-0, in the finals. In freestyle wrestling, wrestlers have to win two out of three periods.

Nickerson, who finished third at NCAAs at 125 pounds in March, will have to wrestle in a mini-tournament to begin nationals. Should he win the mini-tournament, he'll enter the main draw-- and face U.S. Nationals champion Nate Gallick, who was a two-time national champion at Iowa State.

"Supposedly, it's the toughest weight class in the country," Nickerson said. "It should be real tough. I'll just go out there and wrestle my best and see what happens. Obviously, I think if I wrestle my best, I think I could win it. But it's a tough weight."