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.

What: #1 Cornell vs. #6 Central Michigan
When: Friday November 19th, 2010
Time: 6:30 pm EST
Where: Friedman Wrestling Center (Ithaca, NY)
Coverage: FloWrestling.com 

My wife loves the summer, my kids love the summer. I love when the summer ends. The end of summer symbolizes one thing: wrestling season is almost here.

Listen to Scott Casber as he interviews Troy Nickerson, Cam Simaz, Angel Escobedo, Craig Brester, Daniel Cormier, Eric Keller, Kevin Bonilla, and Pat Pecora.

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.

Watch USA Wrestling interviews with Kyle Dake, Rob Koll, Cam Simaz, Mack Lewnes, and Justin Lister.

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

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.

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

What: #7 Cornell University vs. Hofstra
When: Saturday February 6th, 2010
Time: 5pm EST
Where: Ithaca, NY
Coverage: Live Video (Courtesy of Cornell Redcast)

What: #2 Iowa State vs. #7 Cornell University
When: Sunday January 31st, 2010
Time: 1pm EST
Where: Newman Arena
Coverage: Live Text (Courtesy of Light House Wrestling)/Live Video (Courtesy of Cornell Redcast)

They practice scrambling at Cornell; this is a certainty. If the finals of the 2009 Southern Scuffle on the campus of UNC-Greensboro taught us nothing else, it is that Big Red wrestlers have made an art out of countering their opponents’ offensive attacks and utilizing their scrambling ability to remain in control of matches at [...]

Sorry it took me an extra day to get this update out. We took the redeye back and I expected to write it on the plane flight back.

I was going to put this off until after the Body Bar but l figured I might as well get it over with. We lost a heartbreaker tonight. There were some absolutely amazing performances and an equal number of less than stellar performances. I will start with the positives.

The No. 3 nationally ranked Cornell wrestling team has earned the top spot in EIWA Preseason rankings it was released this weekend. The Big Red has won the EIWA team title the past three seasons and will contend for its fourth-straight win in March. Seven Big Red wrestlers are ranked in the top six of their individual weight classes with four ranked first. Freshmen are not eligible to be ranked.

The summer has passed by all too quickly, and the entire team has returned to Ithaca. We had a productive summer, and I am ecstatic to have everyone back. Actually this comes as no surprise to me since we had plus or minus 20 wrestlers training in Ithaca for all or part of the entire summer.