Wrestling 2019-20

[Swampy]

Rob Koll's perspective from his email blast:  This is a terrible disappointment, this is not a tragedy because our young men are more than just wrestlers.

I like that thinking.

OTOH, what is it for those of us who are nothing but Cornell fans?

[Jim Hyla]

Rob Koll's perspective from his email blast:  This is a terrible disappointment, this is not a tragedy because our young men are more than just wrestlers.

I like that thinking.

OTOH, what is it for those of us who are nothing but Cornell fans?

It's a sad life.

[cu155]

Ugarte, I need you to talk me down from the stupidity I'm witnessing in the various TheMat Covid-19 threads!

[ugarte]

Ugarte, I need you to talk me down from the stupidity I'm witnessing in the various TheMat Covid-19 threads!

I did my best for a while but I'm putting that place in quarantine for a while

[cu155]

Ugarte, I need you to talk me down from the stupidity I'm witnessing in the various TheMat Covid-19 threads!

I did my best for a while but I'm putting that place in quarantine for a while

Definitely the wise choice!

[mountainred]

Ugarte, I need you to talk me down from the stupidity I'm witnessing in the various TheMat Covid-19 threads!

I did my best for a while but I'm putting that place in quarantine for a while

Definitely the wise choice!

The only remotely sane place over there is the Cornell thread.  I miss Wrestling Report.

[klehner]

Ugarte, I need you to talk me down from the stupidity I'm witnessing in the various TheMat Covid-19 threads!

That place has a serious need for triage:  let those who are terminally stupid just die.

On a wrestling-related subject, if the NCAA grants a year or semester eligibility to those winter sports athletes affected by this shutdown, what would the Ivy League do for seniors like Tucker and Kolodzik?  If they were interested, could they be allowed to be "grad students" (a la Lehigh fifth year wrestlers) and go for another semester if they so wished?

Vito/Tucker/Yianni would again be a nice start to the lineup :-)

[ugarte]

Ugarte, I need you to talk me down from the stupidity I'm witnessing in the various TheMat Covid-19 threads!

That place has a serious need for triage:  let those who are terminally stupid just die.

On a wrestling-related subject, if the NCAA grants a year or semester eligibility to those winter sports athletes affected by this shutdown, what would the Ivy League do for seniors like Tucker and Kolodzik?  If they were interested, could they be allowed to be "grad students" (a la Lehigh fifth year wrestlers) and go for another semester if they so wished?

Vito/Tucker/Yianni would again be a nice start to the lineup :-)

i don't know. one of the reasons i had to bail on the mat forums is that i ... don't care? i don't mean it as a judgment if it sounds like i'm being smug or morose but i just can't care about the eligibility implications of this. everyone's brain works differently and talking about this is definitely a way that someone who isn't me can kill the time and feel normal but ... i'm not that guy.

[Al DeFlorio]

i don't know. one of the reasons i had to bail on the mat forums is that i ... don't care? i don't mean it as a judgment if it sounds like i'm being smug or morose but i just can't care about the eligibility implications of this. everyone's brain works differently and talking about this is definitely a way that someone who isn't me can kill the time and feel normal but ... i'm not that guy.

Nor am I.  They can decide as they wish.

[klehner]

Zain Retherford got pinned at the Pan Am Qualification tournament, and failed to qualify the US at 65kg for the Olympics.  The US would have to qualify someone at the Last Chance Qualifying tournament (in Bulgaria or something?) for anyone to represent the US at 65kg; this tournament, if it is even held due to the coronavirus, would be very hard to qualify.  I'm sure Yianni is so grateful...

[ugarte]

Zain Retherford got pinned at the Pan Am Qualification tournament, and failed to qualify the US at 65kg for the Olympics.  The US would have to qualify someone at the Last Chance Qualifying tournament (in Bulgaria or something?) for anyone to represent the US at 65kg; this tournament, if it is even held due to the coronavirus, would be very hard to qualify.  I'm sure Yianni is so grateful...

not easy. last time around molinaro failed as did dylan palacio (trying to qualify uruguay). on the other hand, that's how j'den cox qualified the weight for us.

[David Harding]

This belongs in a 2020-2021 thread, but I'm not going to take responsibility for starting that one.
 
The postponement of the summer Olympics by a year brings heartache those who have devoted a year to training.  What does it mean for Cornell as a team next year?

[ugarte]

This belongs in a 2020-2021 thread, but I'm not going to take responsibility for starting that one.
 
The postponement of the summer Olympics by a year brings heartache those who have devoted a year to training.  What does it mean for Cornell as a team next year?

Absolutely no idea yet. I don't know how the NCAA is going to treat it. I doubt that Vito or Max would take a second year. Yianni might; he's a more likely team member and a legit threat for a medal.

[klehner]

This belongs in a 2020-2021 thread, but I'm not going to take responsibility for starting that one.
 
The postponement of the summer Olympics by a year brings heartache those who have devoted a year to training.  What does it mean for Cornell as a team next year?

Yianni gave no indication in a post-Olympic-postponement interview on Flo that he would not wrestle for Cornell next year.  If he returns, I can't imagine that anyone else would also not return.  Cornell will have an amazing, national-trophy caliber team next year.

[marty]

This belongs in a 2020-2021 thread, but I'm not going to take responsibility for starting that one.
 
The postponement of the summer Olympics by a year brings heartache those who have devoted a year to training.  What does it mean for Cornell as a team next year?

Yianni gave no indication in a post-Olympic-postponement interview on Flo that he would not wrestle for Cornell next year.  If he returns, I can't imagine that anyone else would also not return.  Cornell will have an amazing, national-trophy caliber team next year.

Couldn't the postponed games interfere with next year just like they did with this year?