Wrestling 2018-19

ugarte · July 12, 2019, 05:40:55 PM

Yianni advances to the finals.

Wins comfortably over Retherford in the first round - 9-5. Had a 9-3 lead and gave up a garbage time takedown with time running out, imo mostly to run out the clock. In the QF he steamrolled an Azeri wrestler 13-2 for a tech fall. In the semis, he went down 9-0 in the first round and then in the second round his opponent got completely gassed and Yianni came back to take the lead on criteria 9-9, but the score didn't matter because the last point was awarded simultaneously to the third caution on his opponent, disqualifying him. Great run.

He has a wrestler from ~~Bahrain~~ Brunei in the final round, though given how ~~the gulf~~ small but insanely wealthy states build their athletic programs I have no idea if he's actually from ~~Bahrain~~ Brunei.

ugarte · July 13, 2019, 12:13:00 PM

Ali didn't take the mat for the final, so Yianni takes the gold.

CU77 · July 14, 2019, 06:49:04 PM

Ugarte, thank you for your tireless updates on Cornell wrestling! I'm sure there are many out there who, like me, greatly appreciate them.

dag14 · July 15, 2019, 08:42:09 AM

And I also particularly appreciate your frequent reminders of upcoming events, especially on the international scene since I often am not following the calendar closely enough. While I didn't watch Yanni's matches live [esp at 4 am EDT], I caught them in the Flowrestling archives.

ugarte · July 15, 2019, 05:15:09 PM

Quote from: CU77Ugarte, thank you for your tireless updates on Cornell wrestling! I'm sure there are many out there who, like me, greatly appreciate them.

Quote from: dag14And I also particularly appreciate your frequent reminders of upcoming events, especially on the international scene since I often am not following the calendar closely enough. While I didn't watch Yanni's matches live [esp at 4 am EDT], I caught them in the Flowrestling archives.

Thanks, CU77 and dag14.

If you want to tool through the archives some more, dag, there are 4 Cornell recruits wrestling in the Junior Freestyle nationals.

138: Josh Saunders is in the semis. He has won all of his matches by Technical Superiority: 11-1, 10-0, 10-0, 13-0, 10-0
195: Ethan Hatcher is in the semis. He has won all of his matches by Technical Superiority: BYE, 10-0, 10-0. 10-0, 12-2

170: Mason Reiniche is alive in the consolation bracket. He won his first 3 matches: WBF, 7-1. 3-2 before losing 10-3 in R16. In the consolation bracket he has won 13-2, 11-5 to survive.
182: Chris Foca is alive in the consolation bracket. He won his first 4 matches WBF, WBF, WBF, 15-3 before losing a wild match 14-14 on criteria to the #1 ranked wrestler still in high school. Foca graduated in 2019 but he may take a greyshirt and postpone enrolling at Cornell for a year.

Reiniche and Foca are in the blood round: a win puts them in the top 8. Saunders and Hatcher can finish no worse than 6th.

ugarte · July 15, 2019, 09:18:57 PM

SF:
138: Saunders WTS 12-2 on to the finals against (I think) the 2 seed. 1 vs 2 final.
195: Hatcher L 6-8 down to Consy Semi.

Consy:
170: Reiniche LTS 5-15 out in the blood round (the two wrestlers who beat him are in the 3rd and 7th place matches tomorrow)
182: Foca WTS 10-0, L 7-10 will wrestle for 7th (the two wrestlers who beat him are in the final and 3rd place matches tomorrow)
195: Hatcher WTS 11-0 will wrestle for 3rd (only loss was in the SF, so, to a finalist)

Saunders is in the final and everyone else's "worst" loss was to a medalist.

ugarte · July 16, 2019, 04:01:53 PM

Saunders wins the 138 final 5-3.
Foca wins the 182 7th place match by tech 12-2 in 1:55.
Hatcher wins the 195 3rd place match by tech 10-0 in 0:38.

Congrats to all the future Big Red wrestlers.

ugarte · July 20, 2019, 12:50:02 PM

Quote from: ugarteFoca wins the 182 7th place match by tech 12-2 in 1:55.

After the Freestyle competition, Foca wrestled in the Greco-Roman tournament and took the title at 182. 6 straight wins including 3 tech falls, the last of which was in the finals.

ugarte · August 03, 2019, 01:45:28 PM

This weekend Yianni (65kg Freestyle) and Berreyesa (77kg Greco) went to Warsaw for the Poland Open.

Yianni won his first two matches 10-0, 11-0 to advance to the semifinal, an anticipated rematch of Yianni's wild comeback win from Yasar Dogu, but Musukaev defaulted out. He will face a Ukranian in the final tomorrow (the session starts at 8am Eastern).

Berreyesa won his first round match 4-1 then lost the QF 2-1 to a wrestler who injured his shoulder early in the match. His opponent then defaulted out of his semifinal, eliminating Berreyesa from the repechage.

ugarte · August 04, 2019, 08:38:25 AM

Quote from: ugarteYianni ... will face a Ukranian in the final tomorrow (the session starts at 8am Eastern).

Turns out that it started at 7. It is the first match on the mat 2 window here: https://www.zapasy.org.pl/articles/pytlasinski-ziolkowski-poland-open-live-dzien-3

Spoiler text sort of: Yianni wins 9-8. Unclear why he was given his 9th point. Didn't seem like an exposure to me.

ugarte · August 04, 2019, 01:38:24 PM

Coach Koll heavily implied that Yianni is going to take an Olympic redshirt to qualify for 2020 and implied less strongly that Arujau, Berreyesa and Dean will as well. We have a couple of great recruiting classes coming in and Darmstadt coming back (at 184!) but this is going to be rough in 19-20 while setting the team up for an insane roster for 20-21 and 21-22.

George64 · August 04, 2019, 02:32:25 PM

Great interview with Rob Koll on YouTube discussing Yianni, Dake, RTCs, etc.

David Harding · August 04, 2019, 11:41:09 PM

Quote from: ugarteCoach Koll heavily implied that Yianni is going to take an Olympic redshirt to qualify for 2020 and implied less strongly that Arujau, Berreyesa and Dean will as well. We have a couple of great recruiting classes coming in and Darmstadt coming back (at 184!) but this is going to be rough in 19-20 while setting the team up for an insane roster for 20-21 and 21-22.

Exciting! Thanks for the updates.

ugarte · August 06, 2019, 04:35:01 PM

Another cool wrestling story: Ben Honis '19 is using his graduate eligibility to walk on as a linebacker for Syracuse.

ugarte · August 12, 2019, 01:10:59 PM

Still waiting on the results of the Yianni arbitration. While we wait, Vito Arujau is competing at the Junior nationals in Estonia at 57kg.

Vito had a tough draw but he is in the finals, winning his first three matches 4-3, 10-8 and then 8-1. In the first round he beat a three-time Cadet (U17) world medalist from Georgia (Stalin, not Gingrich please don't make the obvious joke here as I already have); in the QF he beat the Asian silver medalist. In the semifinals, he beat the defending Junior world champ from Russia. He'll face Japan's representative in the finals. Amazing.