Wrestling [2017-18]

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Chavez Makes Senior World Team In Greco-Roman.

I didn't even realize he was doing this until he was in the finals and then forgot I hadn't posted it here. He dropped out of the first qualifying tournament so I didn't realize that he was still going to even try for the World Team. Also interesting, he dropped down from 77kg to 72kg, which is 6 pounds less than he was wrestling at for the Big Red. I still don't think he'd drop to 157 after getting All-American at 165 but it's interesting.

This is fantastic and I hope Garrett can join Dake and Chavez in Budapest with a win tonight.

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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.

Colon wins the first of the best of 3, but Garrett comes back with two straight wins - the last a 12-0 tech fall - and he's going to Budapest with Dake and Chavez on the US World Team!

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Cornell wrestlers going to Worlds:

Senior Freestyle

61kg: Nahshon Garrett '16
79kg: Kyle Dake '13

Senior Greco-Roman

72kg: Jon Jay Chavez '19

U23 Freestyle

61kg: Vitali Arujau '22
61kg: Chas Tucker '20 (backup)
97kg: Ben Honis '19 (backup)

Junior Greco-Roman

82kg: Andrew Berreyesa '22

It's also possible that Dylan Palacio '17 is wrestling for Uruguay but I'm not sure.

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Kyle Dake workout video.

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Junior Greco-Roman

82kg: Andrew Berreyesa '22

Berreyesa made a great run to win a silver medal.

I also later learned that frosh Phillip Moomey qualified for the US Cadet Greco-Roman team at 60kg for Worlds. He went 0-2, but winning the US qualifier is fantastic. He's probably stuck behind Arujau and Diakhomihalis at Cornell for most of his career, though, unless he can get down to 125. That's a deep roster.