It was a great weekend for the Big Red. We had a doubleheader on Saturday, starting with a 1 p.m. match at Hofstra, and then culminating in a 6 p.m. Ivy League faceoff at Columbia. Over the course of the day, our guys only gave up eight offensive points.

Ivy League competition dominated this weekend’s slate of EIWA matchups as all of the Ivy Leaguer’s in the conference stepped into the circle. No team put itself in better position to challenge Cornell for the Ivy League title than Penn, who went 3-0 on the weekend.

Big Red coach Rob Koll reviews the team after the Iowa State University dual meet.

For those who have been in a coma for the past three days, I am excited to tell you that the Big Red won the national dual meet championship this past weekend. Cornell became the first team outside of the Big Ten or Big Twelve to ever win this title.

It has been a while since my last musings, but that does not mean nothing has been happening in the Cornell wrestling world. As a matter of fact, we have been very busy and I am slightly surprised and disappointed that I have not heard many complaints about my silence.

Just two weeks after fellow EIWA school Cornell took first at the Las Vegas Invitational, Navy headed to the state of Nevada on Dec. 19 with similar aspirations at the Reno Tournament of Champions. When the dust settled out West, the Midshipmen came away with a solid seventh-place finish out of a total of 30 programs.

We have made it through the first half of the season with our record unblemished and I am excited for what awaits us in the second semester. Considering our wrestlers are getting ready for finals, I feel it is an appropriate time to give them performance evaluations as well.

For the first time this season, all 13 EIWA programs hit the mat in competition this past weekend highlighted by four teams who headed to Philadelphia for the Keystone Classic. Home cooking was in true order as Penn took the tournament behind five, first place finishes and one “Outstanding” performance.
At 197 pounds, Micah Burak breezed [...]

This past weekend was action packed as Binghamton wrestlers competed in the Cornell Body Bar and East Stroudsburg University Open tournaments on Saturday, as well as the Sprawl and Brawl Duals on Sunday.

The Big Red officially opened the season with a Friday night match against #6 Central Michigan and followed it up with the Arno Niemand Body Bar Invitational.

Last season was a rough one for the Hofstra University wrestling program. Hit hard by a number of season-ending injuries to key starters, the Pride failed to have any wrestlers earn All-American honors at the 2010 NCAA Division I championships.

After waiting 238 days the wrestling season is finally upon us! Today we wrestled at the Bearcat Open in Binghamton.

“This year I think we’re going to win the national title.”

The NCAA D1 Power Ranking is a top-25 rank of the wrestlers across weight classes based on accomplishments over the course of their careers.

I’m back from Omaha and still riding a high from the weekend. Every wrestler wrestled well whether in victory or defeat. I am so honored to be a part of the greatest NCAA tournament performance in Cornell wrestling history.

With only days left before the opening round of the 2010 NCAA DI wrestling championships, wrestling fans across the nation are seething with anticipation of a donnybrook amongst the top teams in the nation challenging for the coveted team championship.

Rob Koll recaps the Big Red’s performance at the 2010 EIWA Championships.

When the final hand was raised at Lehigh’s Stabler arena, Cornell extended its conference championship winning streak to four, crowned five champion, two third, and one forth place finishes.

Central Michigan claimed individual championships in five weight classes on its way to a ninth consecutive Mid-American Conference Wrestling Championships title on Sunday.

Cornell powers through the first day of the EIWA championship as 8 of 10 Big Red wrestlers stormed through the quartfinal round.

Coaches around the Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) circled 2010 on their calendar as the year Hofstra’s eight-year run as conference champions could be ending. Barring a monster tournament by the Pride, this will be the year the championship trophy goes somewhere other than Hempstead, N.Y.
But which university snatches up that team championship is still in [...]

Cornell earned All-Ivy accolades at a total of nine different weight classes. Eight earn first team honors for the 2009-2010 season. Lewnes and O’Connor named Co-Wrestlers of the year; Dake named rookie of the year.

This weekend we finished up the dual meet portion of our season by defeating Brown and Harvard. The victory over Harvard secured our eighth consecutive Ivy League title. The program’s Ivy League winning streak now stands at forty-three straight dual meet victories over Ancient Eight opponents and this year we outscored the rest of the league by a combined score of 204-19.

Rob Koll recaps the Big Red’s weekend performance against Penn and Princeton.

Now that we have wrestled through the most rigorous portion of the season it is nice to have a few “lighter” matches leading up the EIWA tournament. Out of twenty matches wrestled, we had only one wrestler lose a match.

The No. 23 Rutgers wrestling team will put its school record 12-match unbeaten streak on the line this Saturday when it travels west to face No. 7 Lehigh at the Stabler Arena for a 1 p.m. match.