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• For more than 14 years, the Cornell wrestling team has exited every Ivy League match with a victory, but that streak will be tested in a big way on Saturday when the Big Red visits Penn and Princeton.
• The Big Red will visit traditional Ivy rival Penn at 1 p.m., then closes conference action with a 7 p.m. matchup at fellow Ivy unbeaten Princeton.
• You can listen to this weekend's matches at ESPN Ithaca 1160 AM/107.1 FM or ESPNIthaca.com with Keith Raad on the call or watch on the IvyLeagueDigitalNetwork. Saturday's 1 p.m. match against Penn will also be simulcast on ESPN3.
• A pair of wins would give the Big Red its 14th straight Ivy title, building on its own record of consecutive league crowns, while a win over Princeton only would guarantee at least a share of the title.
• Cornell's 13 straight Ivy League titles build on the Big Red's record of consecutive Ivy titles by the same team in a sport. The wrestling team has won three more than Cornell had in men's gymnastics (from 1967-68 to 1976-77) and men's lacrosse (1973-74 to 1982-83), as well as Princeton in men's lacrosse (1994-95 to 2003-04). 
• During that 13-year run, Penn has finished as the runner-up or tied for second in each season.
• The winner of the Cornell-Penn dual has won the Ancient Eight title in each of the last 29 seasons.
• Princeton was the last team other than Cornell or Penn to hold the "Brown Club of Rhode Island" trophy, going 6-0 in 1986 to claim its second straight title.
• Every four-year member of the Cornell wrestling team who has enrolled since 1980 has won at least one Ivy League title during their career.
• With a 71-match Ivy League win streak on the line, Cornell will look to get off the mat after a 32-12 home dual meet loss to No. 4 Oklahoma State on Sunday—the program's worst dual meet loss since a 31-9 defeat at the hands of Penn State in the 2007-08 campaign.
• 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 a top five team finish.
• Top-ranked and unbeaten senior Nahshon Garrett, a three-time All-American, won both the Las Vegas Invitational and the Southern Scuffle events at 133 pounds and has now won 138 matches, good for fourth on the school's career list.
• No. 1 Gabe Dean, the defending national champion at 184 pounds, had his 52-match win streak snapped on Sunday with a 14-9 loss to 16th-ranked Evan Boyd of Oklahoma State and will look to begin a new streak on his road to competing for a second straight NCAA title.
• Junior Brian Realbuto, the national runner-up a season ago at 157 pounds, is now 27-3 on the season and has been ranked as high as 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) are the team's fourth and fifth ranked wrestlers.
• Garrett is a perfect 13-0 in Ivy League duals, while Dean and Realbuto are 11-0 and Palacio hasn't lost in nine career Ivy bouts.
• A number of Big Red wrestlers in the lineup are on the borderline of being ranked, including freshman Dalton Macri (125), Joey Galasso (149) and Jeramy Sweany (285), while two-time NCAA qualifier Mark Grey (133) recently returned from injury.
• Cornell will not only be looking to extend its 71-match Ivy League win streak, but also a 96-match win streak over EIWA foes excluding Lehigh.
 
THE STREAKS
• Cornell is 92-20-1 (.819) in dual meet competition in the last seven seasons.
• Cornell has won 71 consecutive Ivy League dual meets dating back to the 2001-02 campaign.
• Cornell has placed in the top five at the NCAA championships in six of the last seven seasons and in the top 10 in 11 of the last 13 years (eight straight).
• The Big Red is 48-1 (.980) in its last 49 duals against current EIWA competitors dating back to 2010-11.
• Cornell is 87-4-1 (.951) in dual meet action against current EIWA teams dating back to 2004-05, including 79-0 against teams other than Lehigh.
• The Big Red is 37-5 (.881) in its last 42 home duals dating back to the 2009-10 season.
• Big Red wrestling has won 66 consecutive dual meets against unranked teams dating back to the beginning of the 2007-08 season.
• Cornell has won nine consecutive EIWA team titles, the longest streak in conference history.
• The Big Red has crowned at least one EIWA champion in each of the last 14 seasons and in 24 of the last 25 years.
• Cornell has won 28 straight meets against New York state opponents.
• Cornell has won seven consecutive EIWA championships at 125 pounds (Troy Nickerson in 2009, 2010; Frank Perrelli in 2011, 2012; Nahshon Garrett in 2013, 2014, 2015), the most consecutive in one weight class by any school since Lehigh won at 177 pounds from 1974-81, a record eight straight seasons.
• The Big Red has won four consecutive New York State team titles.
 
ABOUT PENN
• The Quakers are 5-3 overall and 2-1 in Ivy League competition, with its only loss a narrow 19-15 defeat at Princeton.
• Penn won a pair of Ivy duals last weekend on the road, topping Brown (25-9) and Harvard (26-9) by nearly identical scores.
• Penn features three ranked wrestlers, though two will battle against higher-ranked Big Red grapplers.
• CJ Cobb (No. 11 at 141), Casey Kent (No. 15 at 174) and Lorenzo Thomas (No. 15 at 184) make the Quakers a formidable opponent in duals and a threat at EIWAs in March.
• Penn also features two-time NCAA qualifier Caleb Richardson at 125 and 2015 qualifier Brooks Martino at 165 pounds.
• The winner of the Cornell-Penn dual has won at least a share of the Ivy League title every season for the last 29 years.
• Second-year head coach Alex Tirapelle has posted a 14-7 dual meet record and qualified five wrestlers to the NCAA championships in his first season.

THE CORNELL-PENN SERIES
• Cornell has a decisive 82-21-1 lead in the all-time series dating back to 1907-08.
• The Big Red has won 13 consecutive dual meets against the Quakers, including a 26-9 decision last season at Newman Arena.
• Penn's last win came on Feb. 2, 2002, a 21-9 Quaker victory in Philadelphia, Pa.
 
LAST TIME VS. PENN
• No. 7 Cornell rallied from a halftime deficit with a big second half, winning the meet's final six matches en route to a 26-9 triumph over the Quakers at Newman Arena on Jan. 24, 2015.
• The Big Red shut out the Quakers 18-0 over the final five matches, spurred on by a first period fall by Dylan Palacio over Ray Bethea to turn the tide of the dual and get the crowd of better than 2,100 back into the match.
• Consecutive overtime wins, including a late rally to get there for Duke Pickett, and another top-five win for Gabe Dean, was one of three consecutive matches the Big Red won by a single point or in overtime.
• Nahshon Garrett got the match started with a tech fall, but three straight Quaker victories made it 9-4 heading into 157, and that's when Cornell turned it around.
• Three of the matches went to overtime, with the Big Red winning two in sudden victory sessions.
• The winner of the Cornell-Penn dual has now won at least a share of the Ivy League title every season for the last 29 years.


 
ABOUT PRINCETON
• Princeton is 7-6 on the season (3-0 Ivy) and has had seven of its matches decided by a fall or less, with its three Ivy wins coming by an average of four points.
• The Tigers are led by 10th-ranked Brett Harner at 197 and 16th-ranked Jonathan Schleifer at 174, while NCAA qualifiers Jordan Laster (141), Chris Perez (149), Adam Krop (157) and Abraham Ayala (184) also dot the roster.
• Princeton is the last team other than Cornell or Penn to claim an Ivy League title, doing so during the 1985-86 season — exactly 30 years ago.
• Tenth-year head coach Chris Ayres has helped guide eight Princeton wrestlers to the NCAA championships a total of 11 times.

THE CORNELL-PRINCETON SERIES
• Cornell leads the all-time series 53-15 dating back to the 1907-08 season when the teams first met.
• The Big Red has won 29 consecutive dual meets against the Tigers, including last year's 29-9 victory at the Friedman Wrestling Center.
• Princeton's last win over the Big Red came in a 21-19 Tiger victory at home during the 1985-86 campaign.
 
LAST TIME VS. PRINCETON
• Cornell raced out to a 29-3 lead on the strength of four bonus point victories and moved one step closer to its 13th consecutive Ivy League title with a 29-9 triumph over Princeton at the Friedman Wrestling Center on Jan. 30, 2015.
• Gabe Dean's second period pin over Brett Harner highlighted the night, with Nahshon Garrett and Chris Villalonga each posting technical falls.
• Mark Grey added a major decision victory at 133 and Brian Realbuto at 157, Dylan Palacio at 165 and Duke Pickett at 174 all had comfortable wins of at least five points in helping decide the dual.
• Cornell continued several streaks in the victory, posting its 67th consecutive Ivy League dual meet win, its 40th straight against EIWA opponents and its 58th in a row against unranked foes.
• The win was the 100th in Ivy dual meet competition for Rob Koll, who now has a 100-8-1 mark (.922).


 
TALL IVY
• Since Rob Koll took over the Cornell program in 1993, the Big Red has gone 104-8-1 (.925) in its 113 Ivy League matches.
• Over that same span, Penn is next best at 91-21-1, followed by Brown (45-68-1).
• Rounding out the field is Columbia 43-70, Harvard 37-76-1 and Princeton 18-95.
• Dating back to the 2002-03 season (14 years), Cornell's perfect 68-0 record laps the competition. Penn is second-best at 51-17, followed by Columbia 32-36, Harvard 19-49-1, Brown 19-50-1 and Princeton 15-53.
• Since the start of Ivy competition, the Big Red is 281-52-1 (.843) with 36 league titles in 60 seasons (12 second place finishes).
 
NOTES TO KNOW
• Senior Nahshon Garrett, a three-time All-American, sports a 27-match win streak and is unbeaten (26-0) this season.
• Garrett ranks fourth all-time at Cornell with 138 wins and needs five more to match two-time national champion Travis Lee '06 for third.
• Garrett has 85 career bonus wins, good for fourth on the school's all-time charts and needs six to match Mack Lewnes '12 for second.
• Junior Gabe Dean became the 23rd Cornellian with 100 career wins and ranks 20th (107).
• Dean joined the school's top 10 for career falls with his pin against Harvard and now has 26 in his first three seasons.
• Dean also ranks third all-time at Cornell in individual winning percentage (107-6, .947), behind only Dave Auble (.981, 51-1) and Dake (.972, 137-4).
• Both senior Duke Pickett (85-41) and junior Brian Realbuto (86-14) are heading toward joining the 100-win club with at least two dual matches, as well as the EIWA and NCAA championships still on the docket.
• Since the Friedman Wrestling Center opened in January of 2003, the Big Red is 66-13-1 (.831).
• The Big Red finished the 2014-15 dual meet season with a 17-2 record, the third-highest total in school history. Cornell won a record 21 matches during the 1991-92 campaign.
• The Big Red has had at least one individual NCAA champion in seven of the last eight years and at least one finalist in eight straight campaigns.
• The Big Red has had 12 different wrestlers win a combined 17 NCAA titles. Kyle Dake is one of three wrestlers to claim four national crowns (doing it in four different weight classes), while Dave Auble and Travis Lee won two titles each.
• Cornell has had 37 wrestlers earn a total of 72 All-America honors, including 52 total All-Americans since 2002.
• Since Rob Koll took over prior to the 1993-94 campaign, Cornell has had 143 NCAA qualifiers, 52 All-Americans and 12 national champions. In the first 63 seasons of the NCAA tournament, the Big Red program had 82 total NCAA qualifiers, 16 All-Americans and five national champions.
• Head coach Rob Koll became the ninth Big Red coach in any sport to reach 250 career victories with a sweep at the Grapple at the Garden last season. He now sports a 265-87-5 record in dual meets.
• Cornell wrestlers have won at least 20 total matches in eight straight NCAA tournaments and 12 of the last 13.
• The Big Red has won 13 consecutive Ivy crowns and 71 straight Ivy matches.
• Cornell's 13 straight Ivy League titles build on the Big Red's record of consecutive Ivy titles by the same team in a sport. The wrestling team has won three more than Cornell had in men's gymnastics (from 1967-68 to 1976-77) and men's lacrosse (1973-74 to 1982-83), as well as Princeton in men's lacrosse (1994-95 to 2003-04). 
• Every four-year member of the Cornell wrestling team who has enrolled since 1980 has won at least one Ivy League title during their career.
• The Big Red has crowned at least one EIWA champion in each of the last 14 seasons and in 24 of the last 25 years. Only Lehigh, with 16 straight years with an Eastern champion, has a longer current streak.
• Cornell has had at least three individual EIWA champions in seven consecutive seasons.
• In the last six seasons, Cornell wrestlers have won EIWA titles at each weight except 285 pounds. The last heavyweight to stand at the top of the podium was Seth Charles in 1999.
• The Big Red is 253-81-3 all-time against teams from New York state in its history — Army (11-17-1), Binghamton (7-0), Brooklyn Poly (2-0), Buffalo (6-4), Clarkson (2-0), Colgate (29-2), Columbia (88-13), Cortland (17-1), Geneseo (1-0), Hofstra (18-4), Ithaca (12-3), Long Island (1-0), Manhattan (1-0), NYU (2-0), Queens (1-0), RPI (2-0), RIT (7-0-1), St. Lawrence (0-1), Syracuse (42-35-1), Union (2-1) and Wagner (2-0).
• The Big Red's coaching staff has combined for 11 All-America accolades and three individual NCAA titles at a total of two different weight classes as collegiate athletes.
 
NEXT UP
• With dual meet competition complete for the season, the Big Red will have three weeks to focus its attention on preparing for the EIWA championships at Princeton beginning on Saturday, March 5.
• Cornell will be in search of an unprecedented 10th straight EIWA title while qualifying as many wrestlers as possible for the NCAA championships two weeks after at New York City's Madison Square Garden.