Wrestling 2022-23

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It's about that time!

Incoming freshman Vince Cornella won the U20 Pan Am tournament at 65kg.  He'll also be representing the US at the World U20
Championships in August in Bulgaria.

He's looking to be the starter at 141 this coming year.

125:  Greg D/Ungar/Lajoie
133:  Arujau
141:  Cornella/Saunders
149:  Yianni
157:  Yapoujian
165:  Ramirez/Gibson (the best backup around, unless he can drop to 157 and challenge Colton)
174:  Foca
184:  Loew
197:  Cardenas
285:  Fernandes

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At the U20 championships, Cornella has won his first 3 matches (8-0 over KAZ, 10-0 over BUL, 6-5 comeback win in the QF over IRI) and will be in the semis. That session starts at 11am. Favorite has to be Sujeet (IND) who beat Yianni at a Senior level tournament last month.

[ugarte]

At the U20 championships, Cornella has won his first 3 matches (8-0 over KAZ, 10-0 over BUL, 6-5 comeback win in the QF over IRI) and will be in the semis. That session starts at 11am. Favorite has to be Sujeet (IND) who beat Yianni at a Senior level tournament last month.

Cornella list the semi 4-0 and will wrestle for bronze tomorrow in a session that starts at 11. Sujeet list in the semis also, but on the other side of the bracket so he'll be wrestling for the other bronze. Deep weight class.

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At the U20 championships, Cornella has won his first 3 matches (8-0 over KAZ, 10-0 over BUL, 6-5 comeback win in the QF over IRI) and will be in the semis. That session starts at 11am. Favorite has to be Sujeet (IND) who beat Yianni at a Senior level tournament last month.

Cornella list the semi 4-0 and will wrestle for bronze tomorrow in a session that starts at 11. Sujeet list in the semis also, but on the other side of the bracket so he'll be wrestling for the other bronze. Deep weight class.

O No:-D

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At the U20 championships, Cornella has won his first 3 matches (8-0 over KAZ, 10-0 over BUL, 6-5 comeback win in the QF over IRI) and will be in the semis. That session starts at 11am. Favorite has to be Sujeet (IND) who beat Yianni at a Senior level tournament last month.

Cornella lost the semi 4-0 and will wrestle for bronze tomorrow in a session that starts at 11. Sujeet list in the semis also, but on the other side of the bracket so he'll be wrestling for the other bronze. Deep weight class.

O No:-D

yeah; tough loss on an overturned call as time expired. got a takedown to take a 5-4 lead but after review the judges ruled that he also gave up an exposure to go down 6-5 and his reversal at the end to tie it at 6-6 wasn't enough since criteria favor the wrestler with three 2-point scores over 2-2-1-1.

He's going to be real hard to keep out of the starting lineup at 141.

[klehner]

Future freshman starter at 149 next year, Meyer Shapiro, wins Who's Number One at 152.

He is very good.

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Senior Nationals in Belgrade start at 4:30 with Greco but Yianni's weight class (65kg) isn't for another week.

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Kyle Dake won his 4th world championship in Belgrade. This is his second championship at 74kg after a pair at 79kg.

Interestingly, Dake went up to 79 to avoid Jordan Burroughs (who repeatedly beat him in the Team USA qualification finals), then went back to 74 to qualify for the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo because 79 is not an Olympic weight. Dake finally beat Burroughs at the 2020 Olympic Team Trials* and won bronze in Tokyo.

Burroughs bumped up to 79 for the 2021 World Championships to avoid Dake, and has now won back to back world championships at 79 himself.

* The team trials and Olympics were both held in 2021 because of the pandemic. They usually don't hold a World Championship during an Olympic year but because the Olympics were bumped back, they held the 2020 Olympics in 2021 and the 2021 World Championship as previously scheduled.

And Yianni has made it to the finals at 65kg, breaking a long streak of US wrestlers failing to medal at 65kg at the world championships. He avenged a loss from the 2021 World Championships in the opening round 4-0 and then won three straight matches by technical superiority, 10-0. His win clinched the team title for the US. Up tomorrow is Rahman Amouzad, a 20-year-old Iranian who has looked incredible as well.

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Yianni started hot but after a wild scramble that gave him a small early lead, Amouzad scored all 7 post-scramble points and won 13-8. Still a very good, if unsatisfying, tournament.

[klehner]

Cornell commits Mason Gibson and Michael Dellagatta are competing in Super 32 this weekend.  It's one of the toughest HS tournaments.

Vito and Jacob Cardenas are competing next week in the World U23 championships in Freestyle, and Phil Moomey is in GR.

Moomey is not on the Cornell roster at the moment, although he was listed at 133 in Mike Grey's recent email.  Taking the semester off?

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Cornell commits Mason Gibson and Michael Dellagatta are competing in Super 32 this weekend.  It's one of the toughest HS tournaments.

Vito and Jacob Cardenas are competing next week in the World U23 championships in Freestyle, and Phil Moomey is in GR.

Moomey is not on the Cornell roster at the moment, although he was listed at 133 in Mike Grey's recent email.  Taking the semester off?

Moomey is also at U23 for Greco so maybe.

Kingsley Menifee is also at Super 32. Don't know if there's any others but Gibson, Dellagatta and Menifee are the three that caught my eye when I took a quick scan of the list.

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If you feel like waking up at 4:30 eastern, Moomey's weight class kicks off at U23 tomorrow morning live at flowrestling.com

[klehner]

If you feel like waking up at 4:30 eastern, Moomey's weight class kicks off at U23 tomorrow morning live at flowrestling.com

Moomey down 5-0 gets the feet-to-back for 4, a penalty point and a TD to win 7-5 and move to the 1/4s.

He wrestled at around 7am ET.

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If you feel like waking up at 4:30 eastern, Moomey's weight class kicks off at U23 tomorrow morning live at flowrestling.com

Moomey down 5-0 gets the feet-to-back for 4, a penalty point and a TD to win 7-5 and move to the 1/4s.

He wrestled at around 7am ET.

In the QF his opponent gave him a hip toss for 4 about 25 seconds into the match, then rolled him over twice for a quick 8-0 tech. Moomey looked like he was concerned about his shoulder after the match and I was worried that he wouldn't be able to wrestle in repechage. That problem was solved when the guy who beat him lost in the semis.

Really rough performance for the US in Greco. Nobody made the finals, only one wrestler even lost to the eventual finalist to qualify for repechage and he lost his first repechage match.

Women's freestyle is going better. 2 in the finals, 4 in the bronze match and 1 in repechage, needing a win to get into the bronze medal match.

Men's freestyle starts tomorrow early in the morning. I think Arujau's weight class starts tomorrow and Cardenas's on Saturday.

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Men's freestyle starts tomorrow early in the morning. I think Arujau's weight class starts tomorrow and Cardenas's on Saturday.

Arujau went up 5-0 then got too aggressive and it cost him. At the break he was only up 6-5 and the second period went poorly. Down 11-6 and the guy who beat him lost in the SF, so he doesn't go to repechage for bronze.

After the men went 0-for-Greco, the US women's freestlye won a gold, a silver and two bronzes. Day one of the men's freestyle ended with one wrestling for gold tomorrow and two for bronze, along with the final set of weights (including Jacob Cardenas at 92kg).