CornellBigRed.com2014-15 CORNELLCornell Athletics WRESTLING@CornellSports Game Notes CornellAthletics Follow Big Red wRestling matCh 8 #7 CoRNELL Big Red (6-1, 0-0 ivy) vs. HARVARd CRimson (1-2, 0-0 ivy) World Wide Web ............................................www.CornellBigRed.com Saturday, Jan. 17, 2015 • 1 p.m. • Cambridge, maSS. • malkin athletiC Center Facebook ....................................www.Facebook.com/cornellwrestling oNe adio THaca iVe ideo vY eague igiTal etwork com iVe tatS TWiTTer .......................................... www.Twitter.com/bigredwrestling tV: N • r : espN i (1160 AM/107.1 Fm) • l V : i l d N . • l S : N/a YouTube .......................................www.Youtube.com/cornellwrestling corNell leads THe series 52-9 • corNell WoN lasT meeTiNg 33-6 (JaN. 18, 2014 iN iTHaca, N.Y.) camps ............................................www.CornellWrestlingCamps.com live video (Home maTcHes) .............www.IvyLeagueDigitalNetwork.com live audio (all maTcHes) .....................................www.ESPNIthaca.com matCh 9 #7 CoRNELL Big Red (6-1, 0-0 ivy) vs. BROWN BeaRs (1-3, 0-0 ivy) Saturday, Jan. 17, 2015 • 6 p.m. • proVidenCe, r.i. • pizzitola SportS Center oRnell oaChing taFF C C s tV: NoNe • radio: espN iTHaca (1160 AM/107.1 Fm) • liVe Video: ivYleaguedigiTalNetwork.com • liVe StatS: N/a head CoaCh RoB Koll corNell leads THe series 51-2 • corNell WoN lasT meeTiNg 38-0 (JaN. 25, 2014 iN iTHaca, N.Y.) Cornell head coach Rob Koll is in his 22nd season at Cornell (250-81-5, .751; 96-8-1 Ivy, .919) ... he is the David R. Dunlop ‘59 Head Coach of Wrestling at Cornell ... the all-time winningest STORY LINES: When it comes to Ivy League competition, for more than a decade Cornell wrestling has been nearly un- wrestling coach in program history, Koll has guided the Big Red to 12 straight Ivy League titles (15 overall), eight consecutive touchable. Their quest for a 13th consecutive Ancient Eight crown begins Saturday when the seventh-ranked Big Red visits EIWA crowns and seven top five NCAA team finishes, including second twice (2010, 2011) ... he was the 2005 NWCA Division Harvard and Brown. The matches can be viewed with a subscription to the Ivy League Digital Network, with Jeremy Menard I Coach of the Year and the Dan Gable Coach of the Year ... his calling the action on ESPN Ithaca (1160 AM/107.1 FM). wrestlers have won 11 national titles with 52 All-Americans and 46 individual EIWA champions. Cornell will be attempting to continue its dominance in the all-time series against both teams when it faces the Crimson AssistAnt Coaches ...........................Damion Hahn (Minnesota ‘04) at 1 p.m. at the Malkin Athletic Center (Big Red leads the series 52-9 with 12 straight wins) and the Bears at 6 p.m. at the Mike Grey (Cornell ‘11) Donnie Vinson (Binghamton ‘12) Pizzitola Sports Center (Big Red leads the series 51-2 with 17 consecutive wins). AthletiC trAiner .............................................................Chris Scarlata strength CoACh ..............................................................Tom Howley The Big Red enters conference dual meet season having won 63 consecutive dual meets against Ancient Eight foes dating back to the 2001-02 campaign. Its 12 straight championships is already an Ivy record - no program has won CoRnell athletiC CommuniCations more consecutive titles in the same sport. DireCtor .................................................................... Jeremy Hartigan Coming off its first dual meet loss of the season last weekend to Missouri, the Big Red has its sights set squarely on getting AssoCiAte DireCtor.............................................................. Julie Greco AssistAnt DireCtor - Content MAnAger ............... Brandon Thomas the entire roster healthy in time for championship season. The Big Red has wins over nationally ranked Oklahoma, North intern - MultiMeDiA CoorDinAtor .................................. Dan DeCaria Carolina State and Edinboro, won its third consecutive New York State title, went a perfect 3-0 at the Journeymen/ASICS Dir. of MultiMeDiA, ProD. & Web CoMM. .......................John Lukach Accounts rePresentAtive .....................................Marlene Crockford Northeast Duals, placed fifth at the Las Vegas Invitational without the services of four starters and was 2-0 at the Grapple at Web site .................................................... www.CornellBigRed.com Facebook ........................www.Facebook.com/cornellathletics the Garden. The Big Red has done all that without between two and four starters all season. Seven starters remain ranked Twitter.........................................www.twitter.com/cornellsports YouTube .............................www.youtube.com/cornellathletics among the nation’s top 20 wrestlers at their respective weight classes. Sophomore Gabe Dean is nearly unanimously ranked No. 1 in the country at 184 pounds and remains among a hand- 2014-15 sChedule & Results ful of national title contenders at the weight after rolling through the Southern Scuffle, including pinning previous No. 1 NOVEMBER Max Thomusseit of Pitt in the finals. Junior Nahshon Garrett, the defending national runner-up at 125 pounds, is ranked 22 #21 OKLAHOMA #...................................W, 21-13 23 NEW YORK STATE INTERCOLLEGIATES & ..1st, 144.5 pts in the top three of every national poll and is 15-2 with seven wins over nationally ranked wrestlers, five by bonus wins. Northeast Duals (Troy, N.Y.) Senior Chris Villalonga is 15-1 this season at 149 pounds and is ranked sixth nationally, though he has missed the last two 29 vs. Kutztown .......................................................W, 43-4 weekends of competition. vs. #23 North Carolina State .............................W, 20-13 A pair of sophomores, Brian Realbuto (157) and Dylan Palacio (165), are working their way back into the championship vs. West Virginia .................................................W, 26-9 pictures at their respective weight class. Realbuto, who is recovering from an injury suffered at last season’s NCAA tourna- DECEMBER ment, made his first appearance of the season at the Scuffle and has gone 4-2 with two wins over Missouri’s 10th-ranked 5-6 at Las Vegas Invitational (Las Vegas, Nev.) ......5th, 93.5 pts. Joey Lavallee.Palacio, who spent the fall with the Big Red men’s soccer team, went 2-0 at the Grapple at the Garden and Grapple at the Garden (New York, N.Y.) is 6-2 on the season thus far. 21 vs. #12 Edinboro ...............................................W, 23-14 vs. Northern Iowa ...............................................W, 35-4 THE STREAKS: JANUARY • Cornell has placed in the top five at the NCAA championships in five of the last six seasons and in the top 10 in 10 of the 1-2 at Southern Scuffle (Chattanooga, Tenn.) .. 6th, 79.5 pts. 10 #5 MISSOURI ^ .........................................L, 9-27 last 12 years. 17 * at Harvard ....................................................... 1:00 p.m. • Cornell has won eight consecutive EIWA team totals, the longest streak in conference history. * at Brown .......................................................... 6:00 p.m. • The Big Red has crowned at least one EIWA champion in each of the last 13 seasons and in 23 of the last 24 years. 24 * PENN # ................................................1:00 p.m. 25 at #13 Lehigh .................................................. 3:00 p.m. • Cornell is 77-14-1 (.842) in dual meet competition in the last six seasons. 30 * PRINCETON ^ .......................................6:30 p.m. • Cornell has won 63 consecutive Ivy League dual meets dating back to the 2001-02 campaign. 31 LOCK HAVEN ^ ......................................6:30 p.m. • The Big Red has won 35 straight duals against current EIWA competitors dating back to 2010-11. FEBRUARY 7 at Hofstra ...................................................... 12:00 p.m. Projected Starting Lineup vs. Harvard/Brown * at Columbia ..................................................... 6:00 p.m. #7 Cornell Big Red .................................. Weight ......... Notes 15 NWCA National Duals (Ithaca, N.Y.) # ...............TBD 22 NWCA National Duals (Iowa City, Iowa) ............TBD #3 Nahshon Garrett (15-2) ........................................125 ..................Two-time NCAA All-American, 2014 NCAA runner-up #15 Mark Grey (10-5) or Bricker Dixon (6-6) ..............133 ..................Second-team All-Ivy, NCAA qualifier; HM ll-IvyA in 2013 MARCH Ryan Dunphy (3-4) ....................................................141 ..................Career 36-32 record, including 19-9 as a junior 6-7 at EIWA Championships (Philadelphia, Pa.) ......... All Day 19-21 at NCAA Championships (St. Louis, Mo.) .............. All Day #7 Chris Villalonga (15-1) or Taylor Simaz (13-9) .......149 ..................2014 EIWA champion, 3x All-Ivy; has posted a 28-16 career record #9 Brian Realbuto (4-2) ............................................. ..................All-American in 2014, unanimous first-team All-Ivy * - Ivy League game 157 # - Newman Arena (Ithaca, N.Y.) #11 Dylan Palacio (6-2) ............................................165 ..................First-team All-Ivy, NCAA qualifier and EIWA runner-up in 2014 & - Barton Hall (Ithaca, N.Y.) Craig Eifert (4-2) or Jesse Shanaman (10-9) ..............174 ..................HM All-Ivy, 50-24 career record; HM All-Ivy, 64-37 career record ^ - Friedman Wrestling Center (Ithaca, N.Y.) #1 Gabe Dean (23-2) ................................................