Wrestling 20-21

[ugarte]

I don't know if a season is going to happen but ... here's the Class of '24.

I'll write a season preview later but thanks to upprdeck for getting this going. Season starts at the earliest in January so there's time. Before then there may be some international wrestling to write about since Kyle Dake, Yianni Diakomihalis, Nahshon Garrett and Vito Arjujau are all going to be gunning for Team USA in Tokyo ... if we're sending a team to the Olympics. Fun world.

[klehner]

Senior Nationals are October 9-11, and include the following Cornellians (registered):

57kg:  Vito Arujau, Frank Perrelli
86kg:  Gabe Dean, Max Dean
97kg:  Ben Honis

[George64]

Penfield's Kropman to wrestle at Cornell.

[ugarte]

Penfield's Kropman to wrestle at Cornell.

his older brother is a former NCAA qualifier who wrestled at Binghamton and Drexel. Don't know if he'd have gotten much mat time at Cornell but happy to see his brother make a better choice! (EDIT: I take it back - at 157 he would have competed very seriously for mat time and may well have been our starter last season.)

Meanwhile, there are a bunch of Cornell folks wrestling freestyle at FloWrestling's America's Cup at 1pm if you subscribe. Vito, Yianni, Max, Nahshon, Ramirez, Foca, Honis, Loew, maybe Gabe.

[klehner]

And some great matchups at the Rokfin/NLWC event on 2/23:

*Yianni Diakomihalis vs Nahshon Garrett

*Zain Retherford vs Nahshon Garrett

*Kyle Snyder vs Gabe Dean

*Bo Nickal vs Gabe Dean

*Vinenzo Joseph vs Kyle Dake

*Jason Nolf vs Kyle Dake

[ugarte]

can't bring myself to add a rokfin sub but that's cool

[cu155]

Not that it should cause you to jump on but my impression is that unlike Flo there are no shenanigans with canceling.

[ugarte]

i hated watching the eiwa tournament without the ivies. HATED.

[Trotsky]

Hard to imagine an activity during the Plague more dangerous than wrestling other than roughrider porn.

(Yes, I know, ask Gym Jordan, same thing.)

[ugarte]

Without Cornell in the tournament, the EIWA showing was terrible. Lehigh sent 10, but only one was seeded in the top 8 and he failed to live up to seed. The conference only has two AA total. Woof.

On the other hand the wrestling has been pretty great with a lot of upsets and great stories. Fun tournament to watch through tears.

[blackwidow]

Wrestling olympic team qualifier spor finals

Lets go Honis and Dean!

[blackwidow]

Both Honis and Gabe Dean won their respective finals and secured their spots at the Olympic team trials

[ugarte]

Both Honis and Gabe Dean won their respective finals and secured their spots at the Olympic team trials

Thanks for posting, BW.

The Cornell grads who are qualified for the Olympic Team Trials - April 2 and 3 - are:

57kg: Vito Arujau '22*
65kg: Yianni Diakomihalis '21* and Nahshon Garrett '16
74kg: Kyle Dake '13
86kg: Gabe Dean '17
97kg: Ben Honis '19

They won't all necessarily attend but I expect to see all 6 there.

Cornell-adjacent: Evan Henderson is training in Ithaca with the Cornell / Spartan Combat RTC staff and qualified by winning the 65kg bracket and Scottie Boykin, also training in Ithaca, lost to Honis in the 97kg final and qualified for OTT as well.

We had some other good results in the Last Chance tournament, particularly Chris Foca, who is supposed start attending Cornell in the fall. He nearly made consolation finals and had some great wins including a 10-0 tech over Cornell's own Max Dean. Other Cornellians included current students Jonathan Loew and Hunter Richard, future Big Red Joshua Saunders and Julian Ramirez and alum Frank Perrelli '11. It looked like Hunter Richard hurt his right shoulder pretty badly and Julian Ramirez seemed to really hurt his right wrist. Don't know how bad either injury really was.

The Greco tournament had current or future Cornellians Andrew Berreyesa (3rd at 87kg), Chayse LaJoie (5th at 60kg), Jonathan Fagan, Jack Darrah and Phillip Moomey.

* hard to tell what graduation years are for current Big Red wrestlers because of the Olympic redshirts, COVID school withdrawals and free years / grad eligibility next year due to COVID.

[dag14]

The Olympic trials are being broadcast on NBC Sports and streamed on Peacock starting at ll am TODAY.  See the Cornell Athletics website for more details.

[jkahn]

Kyle Dake defeats 3 time NCAA champion Jason Nolf 11-0 in 42 seconds to advance to a best of 3 matches tomorrow vs. Jordan Burroughs.
Vito Arajau advanced winning 6-5 to tomorrow's final as well.
Yianni Diakomihalis lost his semi 4-4 based upon tiebreaking criteria.
Gabe Dean went down 4-0 to David Taylor.