Wrestling 2025-26

[LGR14]

God. Horrific tournament.

Is it surprising? This seems to have been one of the worst seasons in my recent memory.

Three #2 seeds losing in the quarters is surprising. 

[ugarte]

God. Horrific tournament.

Is it surprising? This seems to have been one of the worst seasons in my recent memory.

Three #2 seeds losing in the quarters is surprising. 

Exactly. The Ivy tournament was mildly disappointing but we got in everyone who had the potential to do any damage. seeds 2, 2, 3, 6 and 11 and we have nobody in the semis. The only guy who lost to someone he was supposed to lose to is Cornella.

To move on we've got:

141: Cornella v [18] Noble (Air Force)
149: Joy v [4] Gaj (VT)
157: Shapiro v [9] Cardenas (Stanford)
174: Ruiz v [4] Kharchla (tOSU)

At least Ruiz looked good in dominating his two consolation opponents to get back to the boys round. This is the blood round - winner gets AA, loser has all offseason to think about things.

Action starts at 8 on ESPN streaming.  (the semifinals that i no longer care about (bitter) are on espn 2)

[ugarte]

The nightmare tournament continues.

141: Cornella can't get out from Noble in the second period and even gets tilted for NF4. Down late, with time winding down, he went for a big throw. No dice. He lost the exchange and ended up on his back. Pinned and done.

149: Joy couldn't wrap up takedowns whenever he got a leg. Just when it looked like he would, not only did Gaj neutralize the position, he trapped Joy with his back exposed for a 7 point move. Joy couldn't recover and lost 7-2.

157: Shapiro has had a lot of history with Cardenas and had the better of it recently. This match was wild despite the score with multiple scrambles that almost led to points both ways. In the waning seconds of the third period they got in another scramble with Shapiro stacking Cardenas up but Cardenas holding a leg. I didn't see the ref signal a takedown so I thought it was heading to SV but when the clock hit zero, Shapiro rolled off and exhaled as the scoreboard changed to 4-1 and we have our only All-American of 2026. Spoiler! Up next is [7] Kannon Webster of Minnesota.

174: Ruiz was  Kharchla (tOSU) - Down 3-2 heading into the third period, Ruiz had a choice - cut Kharchla and take the whole period to try for a takedown or ride for the full period and go to SV by earning the riding time point. The corner suggested the former but he chose the latter. It worked well for a minute but the position got awkward and Kharchla ended up reversing him. Ruiz escaped, but down 5-3 with time running out, Kharchla basically ran away for 15 seconds for the win.

All this and Princeton beat Cornell.