Wrestling [2017-18]

[billhoward]

Ugarte's triple-P phrasing is up there with Spiro Agnew on the media as the "nattering nabobs of negativism."

Agnew said it, but William Safire wrote it.  I still miss his column "On Language."

Exactly so. Agnew could not have created that alliteration. Maybe On Language is gone because it's old farts - baby boomers like us - who care about the precision of language so it made the magazine look old.

[Jim Hyla]

... after finishing the wrestling thread on good word usage, I tab over to Facebook and find this post about Elon Musk: " but this guy has to many irons in the fire and has taken his eye of the ball and the ball is going flat."

Come on, how could the ball go flat if they didn't have so many hot irons?

[nshapiro]

At schools that give athletic scholarships, does the redshirt year count against the number of scholarships the team may give?

[ugarte]

At schools that give athletic scholarships, does the redshirt year count against the number of scholarships the team may give?

if the guy is getting a scholarship, i'm 99% sure that yes it does.

[upprdeck]

yes it does. football/bball get 85/13 spread out over 4-6 years, sometimes depending on the player.

[Chris '03]

Back to wrestling...

Sun reports Yianni tore his acl in the quarterfinal. Won title anyway.

http://cornellsun.com/2018/03/23/wrestlings-diakomihalis-had-torn-acl-3-matches-prior-to-winning-ncaa-championship/

[George64]

Back to wrestling...

Sun reports Yianni tore his acl in the quarterfinal. Won title anyway.

Article from Rochester D&C.

[mountainred]

Back to wrestling...

Sun reports Yianni tore his acl in the quarterfinal. Won title anyway.

Article from Rochester D&C.

From the story:  "After recovering, he'll set his sights on repeating as NCAA champion in 2019 and then the Olympics. 'I think I can do it in 2020,' he said."  I wonder if he will take an "Olympic-shirt" in 2020 (Wrestlers can take a year to compete for a berth on the national team without losing a year of eligibility, but you have to be at the Yianni/Dake/Gabe Dean level to consider it.)

[ugarte]

Back to wrestling...

Sun reports Yianni tore his acl in the quarterfinal. Won title anyway.

Article from Rochester D&C.

From the story:  "After recovering, he'll set his sights on repeating as NCAA champion in 2019 and then the Olympics. 'I think I can do it in 2020,' he said."  I wonder if he will take an "Olympic-shirt" in 2020 (Wrestlers can take a year to compete for a berth on the national team without losing a year of eligibility, but you have to be at the Yianni/Dake/Gabe Dean level to consider it.)

kyle snyder planned to do this, right? but then decided to burn the year to come back for pretty much just the Big 10 tournament (which he won) and the NCAA's (which he also won).

[mountainred]

Back to wrestling...

Sun reports Yianni tore his acl in the quarterfinal. Won title anyway.

Article from Rochester D&C.

From the story:  "After recovering, he'll set his sights on repeating as NCAA champion in 2019 and then the Olympics. 'I think I can do it in 2020,' he said."  I wonder if he will take an "Olympic-shirt" in 2020 (Wrestlers can take a year to compete for a berth on the national team without losing a year of eligibility, but you have to be at the Yianni/Dake/Gabe Dean level to consider it.)

kyle snyder planned to do this, right? but then decided to burn the year to come back for pretty much just the Big 10 tournament (which he won) and the NCAA's (which he also won).

I think so.  I have this hazy memory that Gabe considered it briefly, but it could have been just message board chatter.

[billhoward]

It is his life. Let him live the dream. Cornell is big on taking a year abroad.

[George64]

Interesting interview with Rob Koll at South Beach Duals.. Among other things, he answers a question about a hypothetical match between freshmen Kyle Dake and Yianni at 141.

[ugarte]

Rising frosh Vito Arujau won the US U23 World Team Trials at 60kg and will go to the U23 World Championships in Bucharest this November. Chas Tucker finished in third, which is pretty great. Whispers on the Cornell wrestling forum that Tucker may try dropping down to 125 next year. Our lower weights would be amazing if he could: Tucker at 125, Arujau at 133 and Yianni at 141? Damn.

Ben Honis also finished in third, at 97kg. If he puts on some weight the competition for starter at heavyweight - with Janney and Furman as freshman not to mention returning NCAA qualifier Sweany - will be intense.

Also, Kyle Dake '13 finally FINALLY won a US Senior title after college, taking the US World Team Trials at 79kg. His path at 74kg was forever blocked by Jordan Burroughs (who won again, after a lackluster Olympics.) Dake will represent the US at the World Championships in Budapest this October. The future will be interesting because 74 is not an Olympic weight - as we get closer to 2020 Dake will have to either drop back to 74kg and hope that Burroughs final ages or make a run at 2x NCAA champ David Taylor and 3x NCAA champ J'Den Cox in a stacked 86kg class. Cox upset Dake to qualify for the 2016 games and went on to win a bronze medal.

[ugarte]

Also, Nahshon Garrett '16 is in the finals of the WTT himself, at 61kg, and will face Joe Colon this Saturday. Winner joins Dake in Budapest. Colon has won their previous two meetings.

[George64]

Chavez Makes Senior World Team In Greco-Roman.