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CornellBigRed.com2015-16 CORNELLCornell Athletics WRESTLING@CornellSports Game Notes CornellAthletics Follow Big Red wRestling EIWAs #18 CoRNELL Big Red (6-5, 5-0 ivy) at 2016 EIWA Championships World Wide Web ............................................www.CornellBigRed.com Facebook ....................................www.Facebook.com/cornellwrestling March 5-6, 2015 • Princeton, n.J. • Jadwin GyMnasiuM (6,854) TWiTTer .......................................... www.Twitter.com/bigredwrestling Live video: FloWresTling.com • Live stats: TrackWresTling.com haMPions YouTube .......................................www.Youtube.com/cornellwrestling EIWA c — 1910, 1912, 1913, 1914, 1915, 1916, 1917, 1922, 1923, 1926, 1930, 1958, 1992, 1993, camps ............................................www.CornellWrestlingCamps.com 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 live video (Home maTcHes) .............www.IvyLeagueDigitalNetwork.com live audio (all maTcHes) .....................................www.ESPNIthaca.com Lineup at the 2016 EIWA Championship CoRnell CoaChing staFF #18 Cornell Big Red ........................Weight....Notes head CoaCh RoB Koll Dalton Macri (12-5) ........................................ ...........Ranked as high as No. 19 in national polls, 8-2 in last 10 matches Cornell head coach Rob Koll is in his 23rd season at Cornell 125 (267-87-5, .751; 106-8-1 Ivy, .926) ... he is the David R. Dunlop ‘59 #1 Nahshon Garrett (28-0) .............................133 ...........3x All-American and EIWA champ, 4th Cornell in career wins (140) Head Coach of Wrestling at Cornell ... the all-time winningest Dylan Realbuto (15-7) .................................... ...........2x EIWA qualifier, 7th at EIWAs in 2015, 25-14 career record wrestling coach in program history, Koll has guided the Big Red 141 to 14 straight Ivy League titles (17 overall), nine consecutive Joey Galasso (17-11) ......................................149 ...........One of four freshman starters, PA state champion as a HS junior EIWA crowns and eight top five NCAA team finishes, including #7 Dylan Palacio (9-1) .................................... ...........2x 1st-team All-Ivy at 165, looking for first EIWA title, missed fall due to injury second twice (2010, 2011) ... he was the 2005 NWCA Division 157 I Coach of the Year and the Dan Gable Coach of the Year ... his #15 Duke Pickett (23-8) .................................165 ...........Consensus top 20 wrestler, 1st team All-Ivy in 2015, 87-41 career record wrestlers have won 12 national titles with 56 All-Americans #3 Brian Realbuto (29-3) ................................ ...........2015 NCAA runner-up at 157, 2x All-American, ranked as high as #1 this year and 51 individual EIWA champions. 174 #1 Gabe Dean (25-1) ......................................184 ...........2015 NCAA champ, 2x All-American and EIWA champ, 108-6 career record AssistAnt Coaches ...........................Damion Hahn (Minnesota ‘04) Mike Grey (Cornell ‘11) Owen Scott (10-6) ..........................................197 ...........Two-year backup, has a 32-12 career record, including 6-2 in duals Donnie Vinson (Binghamton ‘12) Jeramy Sweany (20-11) .................................HWT.........First among freshmen in wins, 11-2 vs. EIWA foes, 2x California state champ AthletiC trAiner .............................................................Chris Scarlata strength CoACh ..............................................................Tom Howley STORY LINES: • The Cornell wrestling team’s search to bring its Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association (EIWA) championship streak into double CoRnell athletiC CommuniCations DireCtor .................................................................... Jeremy Hartigan digits will be severely tested by a number of teams, but the Big Red is looking forward to the challenge beginning on Saturday, March 5. Deputy DireCtor .................................................................. Julie Greco • Princeton’s Jadwin Gymnasium will be the site of the 112th EIWA championship tournament, the 15th time the Tigers have hosted AssistAnt DireCtor - Content MAnAger ............... Brandon Thomas intern - MultiMeDiA CoorDinAtor ............................Amanda Ghysel the event. Dir. of MultiMeDiA, proD. & Web CoMM. .......................John Lukach • Nationally ranked Lehigh, runner-up in five of the last seven years, as well as the Ivy runner-up and tournament host Princeton, pose AssistAnt DireCtor - ViDeo ..............................................John Enright Web site .................................................... www.CornellBigRed.com giant challenges to Cornell’s streak. Facebook ........................www.Facebook.com/cornellathletics • The Big Red is looking to extend its record streak of EIWA title wins to 10 after capturing a 14th-straight Ivy League crown earlier this spring. Twitter.........................................www.twitter.com/cornellsports YouTube .............................www.youtube.com/cornellathletics • Cornell enters the tournament with a pair of wrestlers ranked No. 1 in their weight class - senior Nahshon Garrett at 133 pounds and junior Gabe Dean at 184 pounds. 2015-16 sChedule & Results • Garrett, a three-time NCAA All-American, will be looking to become the 10th wrestler and fourth Cornellian to claim four Eastern crowns NOVEMBER in a career, while Dean will look to join 57 other wrestlers (nine Cornellians) as a three-time champ. 21 DREXEL # ................................................W, 37-3 • The Big Red has set its sights high — with the NCAA Championships set for MSG in March, Cornell believes it should be in the mix for 22 NEW YORK STATE INTERCOLLEGIATES & ....1st, 202 pts. a top five team finish. Grapple at the Garden (New York, N.Y.) • The first step toward doing that is qualifying wrestlers for the championship with automatic bids at the EIWA meet, where xx automatic 29 vs. #5 Nebraska ................................................. L, 14-21 selections will be earned in the 10 weight classes. vs. #14 Rutgers .................................................. L, 13-21 • Along with Garrett and Dean, eight others will be looking to puch their ticket to nationals. DECEMBER • Junior Brian Realbuto, the national runner-up a season ago at 157 pounds, is now 29-3 on the season and has been ranked as high as 4-5 at Las Vegas Invitational (Las Vegas, Nev.) ......2nd, 113 pts. No. 1 at 174 pounds after moving up two weight classes during the offseason. • Junior Dylan Palacio (No. 7 at 157) and senior Duke Pickett (No. 15 at 165) also rank among the nation’s best at their weight classes and JANUARY will vie for All-America status, as well as attempting to win their first Eastern titles. 1-2 at Southern Scuffle (Chattanooga, Tenn.) .. 4th, 98.5 pts. • Two-time EIWA qualifier Dylan Realbuto (141) finished seventh at Easterns a year ago and will be looking to qualify for his first NCAA 10 at #4 Missouri .................................................... L, 17-18 championship. 15 * HARVARD ^ ..........................................W, 31-14 16 * BROWN ^ .............................................W, 30-13 • A number of Big Red wrestlers in the lineup are on the borderline of being ranked, including freshmen Dalton Macri (125), Joey Galasso 23 #6 LEHIGH ^ ..........................................L, 13-25 (149) and Jeramy Sweany (285), and will look to qualify at their first EIWA meet. FEBRUARY WHAT’S AT STAKE: 6 * COLUMBIA ^ .........................................W, 23-15 7 #4 OKLAHOMA STATE # ............................L, 12-32 • A total of 51 bids to the NCAA tournament will be awarded by placement at the EIWA championship. 13 * at Penn ...............................................................W, 21-9 • The top seven wrestlers at 174 and 184 pounds will be awarded a bid. * at Princeton ......................................................W, 23-16 • The top six at 141, 157 and 285 pounds will automatically qualify. • To earn a spot at NCAAs at 149, a wrestler will have to finish fifth or higher. MARCH 5-6 at EIWA Championships (Princeton, N.J.) ............. All Day 17-19 at NCAA Championships (New York, N.Y.) ............ All Day 2016 NCAA Qualifiers By Conference * - Ivy League game Conference 125 133 141 149 157 165 174 184 197 285 Total # - Newman Arena (Ithaca, N.Y.) & - Barton Hall (Ithaca, N.Y.) Big Ten Conference 7 9 7 6 7 6 9 7 6 7 71 ^ - Friedman Wrestling Center (Ithaca, N.Y.) Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association 3 3 6 5 6 4 7 7 4 6 51 Home games in BOLD CAPS Mid-American Conference 4 6 4 5 5 4 3 4 5 1 41 Big 12 Conference 6 4 3 3 3 3 4 3 4 3 36 Atlantic Coast Conference 4 3 4 2 3 5 2 3 5 3 34 Pacific-12 Conference 2 1 3 3 1 3 2 2 1 3 21 Eastern Wrestling League 1 1 1 3 2 2 1 1 3 2 17 Southern Conference 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 3 13 TOTAL NCAA QUALIFIERS 28 28 29 28 29 28 29 28 29 28 284 Cornell Big Red at 2016 EIWA Championship • Jadwin Gymnasium (Princeton, N.J.) March 5-6, 2016 • Page 1 CornellBigRed.com Cornell Athletics @CornellSports CornellAthletics • The top four spots at 165 and 197 LL iMe t s Rob Koll pounds will automatically qualify. a -t a EIWA School Placewinners Champs 2nd 3rd the david r. dunLoP ‘59 head coach • Only the top three finishers at 125 and 133 pounds will advance through the Lehigh 607 205 157 117 • Rob Koll, the David R. Dunlop ’59 Head Coach of qualification process. Cornell 466 147 102 93 Wrestling, is in his 23rd season as the mentor of the Navy 423 104 86 85 Penn 341 63 85