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• Years of hard work and dedication, coupled with a rare in-state opportunity to compete for national championships, will all come together when the Big Red's contingent of nine wrestlers heads to Madison Square Garden for the three-day event beginning on Thursday, March 17.
• Cornell won an unprecedented 10th consecutive EIWA title and its 14th-straight Ivy League crown earlier this spring and will attempt to claim its first team championship.
• Cornell enters the tournament with a pair of wrestlers seeded No. 1 in their weight class - three-time All-American Nahshon Garrett at 133 pounds and 2015 national champion Gabe Dean at 184 pounds.
• Garrett, the 2014 NCAA runner-up at 125 pounds, became the 10th wrestler and fourth Cornellian to claim four EIWA crowns and now looks to add a first national title.
• Three-time EIWA champion Dean will have a chance to join him next year, but in the meantime will look to become Cornell's fourth two-time national champion (joining Dave Auble, Travis Lee and Kyle Dake).
• Junior Brian Realbuto, the national runner-up a season ago at 157 pounds, is the No. 2 seed at 174 pounds after posting a 33-3 record this season and winning an EIWA title at 174 pounds.
• Also collecting a top five seed is junior Dylan Palacio (No. 5 at 157), who fresh of his first EIWA title, will be looking to earn All-America honors for the first time.
• Cornell will also have five unseeded wrestlers who will have a chance to climb through the field.
• Seniors Duke Pickett (165) and Owen Scott (197) and freshmen Dalton Macri (125), Joey Galasso (149) and Jeramy Sweany (285) have each been ranked nationally during the season and are all, with the exception of Pickett, ready to step on the big stage for the first time in March.
• Pickett is a two-time NCAA qualifier and 2016 EIWA runner-up who will be looking for his first NCAA win after making an appearance at nationals a year ago.

NCAA NOTES
• The Big Red's nine NCAA qualifiers were 136-10 (.932) against wrestlers who did not advance to the championship meet this season.
• It is the third time in program history Cornell has had a pair of No. 1 seeds at the same tournament (Kyle Dake at 141 and Mack Lewnes at 174 in 2010; Cam Simaz at 197 and Kyle Dake at 157 in 2012).
• Cornell has three wrestlers seeded in the top two in their weight class from the second straight year (No. 1 Gabe Dean at 184, No. 2 Brian Realbuto at 157 and Nahshon Garrett at 133 in 2015) and the third time in school history (No. 1 Mack Lewnes at 174 and Kyle Dake at 141, No. 2 Troy Nickerson at 125 in 2010).
• It is just the sixth time in program history Cornell has had four wrestlers seeded in the top five (1958, 2007, 2010, 2011, 2015).
• 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).
• Cornell will be sending a school-record tying nine NCAA qualifiers to New York City, matching a record set in 2005 and since matched in 2009, 2011, 2012 and 2015.
• 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 is one of just eight schools to qualify at least nine wrestlers for the championships, trailing only Nebraska, Oklahoma State and Rutgers with 10 apiece. Joining the Big Red with nine qualifiers is Iowa, Lehigh, Missouri and Penn State.
• 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 152 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.
• Cornell wrestlers have won at least 20 total matches in eight straight NCAA tournaments and 12 of the last 13.
• The Big Red has qualified at least half its lineup in 17 of the last 18 seasons and 15 in a row.
• Cornell has scored at least 50 team points in 12 of the last 13 NCAA tournaments, finishing no lower than 12th in any campaign.

THE STREAKS
• Cornell has won 10 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 15 seasons and in 25 of the last 26 years.
• The Big Red is 50-1 (.980) in its last 51 duals against current EIWA competitors dating back to 2010-11.
• Cornell is 89-4-1 (.952) in dual meet action against current EIWA teams dating back to 2004-05, including 81-0 against teams other than Lehigh.
• Head coach Rob Koll's teams have racked up 14 Ivy League titles in a row, the longest title streak in any sport in conference history.
• Cornell has won 73 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).
• Cornell is 94-20-1 (.822) in dual meet competition in the last seven seasons.
• 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 68 consecutive dual meets against unranked teams dating back to the beginning of the 2007-08 season.
• Cornell has won 28 straight meets against New York state opponents.
• The Big Red has won four consecutive New York State team titles.
• Dylan Palacio (157) and Brian Realbuto (174) also won EIWA titles, while Joey Galasso (149) and Duke Pickett (165) advanced to the finals.

ALL-IVY LEAGUE
• Senior Nahshon Garrett earned his second Ivy League Wrestler of the Year award and freshman Joey Galasso became the third Cornellian in the last four years to capture Ivy League Rookie of the Year when the Ancient Eight announced its all-league teams.
• In addition, Rob Koll captured Ivy League Coach of the Year honors for the second straight year, sharing the honor with Princeton's Chris Ayres.
• Garrett (133) and Galasso (149), both unanimous first-team picks, were joined on every ballot by first-teamers Gabe Dean (184), Brian Realbuto (174) and Dalton Macri (125).
• Senior Duke Pickett (165) captured second-team accolades and sophomore Dylan Realbuto (141) and freshman Jeramy Sweany (285) took spots on the honorable mention squad.

NOTES TO KNOW
• Senior Nahshon Garrett, a three-time All-American, sports a 33-match win streak and is unbeaten (32-0) this season.
• Garrett ranks third all-time at Cornell with 144 wins and could move into second behind Mack Lewnes' record of 150 with a march through the NCAAs.
• Garrett has 90 career bonus wins, good for third on the school's all-time charts and needs one to match Mack Lewnes '12 for second.
• Junior Gabe Dean became the 23rd Cornellian with 100 career wins and now ranks 17th (112).
• Dean joined the school's top 10 for career falls with his pin against Harvard and now has 29 in his first three seasons.
• Dean also ranks third all-time at Cornell in individual winning percentage (112-6, .949), behind only Dave Auble (.981, 51-1) and Dake (.972, 137-4).
• Both junior Brian Realbuto (92-14) and senior Duke Pickett (90-42) both reached 90 career wins at the EIWAs, becoming the 28th and 29th players in Cornell history to reach that mark.
• 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.
• 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 267-87-5 record in dual meets.
• The Big Red has won 14 consecutive Ivy crowns and 73 straight Ivy matches.
• Cornell's 14 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 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.

EIWA CHAMPIONSHIPS
• The Cornell wrestling team clinched its 10th consecutive EIWA team title, winning four individual crowns and qualifying eight for the NCAA championships as day two of the 2016 EIWA championship meet concluded at Princeton's Jadwin Gymnasium.
• The Big Red posted 170.5 team points to squeak by runner-up Lehigh (160) - the sixth time in the last eight years the Mountain Hawks finished right behind Cornell.
• Senior Nahshon Garrett became the 10th wrestler in the history of the EIWAs to win four individual titles, joining fellow Cornellians Travis Lee '05, Mack Lewnes '11 and Cam Simaz '12 in reaching that milestone.
• He also moved into third place on the school's career wins list with 144, surpassing two-time national champion Lee.
• Garrett was given the Coaches Award as the tournament's Most Outstanding Wrestler and the Fletcher Award for the second straight year for posting the most career team points at the EIWA championships after improving to 32-0.
• Junior Gabe Dean held to form as well, becoming the 58th wrestler to claim three Eastern titles with an electric tournament that concluded with the Sheridan Award (most pins in the shortest period) and a pin in the finals in less than a minute.
• Cornell had a dominant first session on Sunday, winning six of its seven semifinal matches and earning six more NCAA bids on top of the two that qualified on Saturday.
• It was the eighth consecutive year Big Red wrestlers captured at least three individual EIWA titles.
• It was also the sixth straight year the Big Red had all 10 wrestlers place and the second straight year it left the tournament with eight NCAA qualifiers.

EIWA NOTES
• Cornell has won each of the last 10 EIWA team titles, the longest streak in the meet's 100+ year history.
• The Big Red has the top two streaks, winning six straight from 1912-17.
• Senior Nahshon Garrett became the fourth Cornellian and 10th overall wrestler to claim four Eastern titles.
• Junior Gabe Dean has three titles in his first three years and became the program's 10th three-time champion and 58th in EIWA history.
• The Big Red has crowned at least one EIWA champion in each of the last 15 seasons and in 25 of the last 26 years. Only Lehigh, with 17 straight years with an Eastern champion, has a longer current streak.
• Cornell has had at least three individual EIWA champions in eight consecutive seasons.
• In the last seven 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.

SOUTHERN SCUFFLE
• Junior Gabe Dean became the ninth three-time Scuffle champion and senior Nahshon Garrett won his second title as the Cornell wrestling team finished fourth in a loaded 2016 Defense Soap & Flips Wrestling Southern Scuffle field.
• Cornell finished the two-day tournament with four wrestlers on the podium and 98.5 points to finish behind only Penn State (183), Oklahoma State (158) and Lehigh (104.5).
• Dean swept through an all-EIWA semifinals, defeating Navy's Matthew Miller 10-5 in the semis and Nathaniel Brown of Lehigh 8-2 in the finals.
• During the tournament he became the 23rd Big Red wrestler to 100 wins (104-5).
• The victory over Brown was a rematch of last season's NCAA and EIWA championship matches.
• Garrett, the No. 1-ranked wrestler at 133 pounds was even more dominant, earning bonus points in each match en route to the title.
• He busted out quickly in the finals against Penn State's Jordan Conaway, majoring him 14-4 for the crown.
• That came after earlier in the day taking an injury default win over Kaid Brock of Oklahoma State after dominating the first 90 seconds.
• He took a tech fall victory over Minnesota's Sam Brancale in the quarterfinals after earning a fall and a tech fall in victories on day one.
• Also finishing on the podium were junior Brian Realbuto at 174 pounds and 165-pounder Duke Pickett, both of whom finished sixth.

LAS VEGAS INVITATIONAL
• Senior Nahshon Garrett became the fifth person to claim three Cliff Keen Las Vegas Invitational titles to start the night, upsetting the No. 1 ranked wrestler at 133 pounds to lead three Cornell champions as the Big Red finished second as a team.
• Juniors Brian Realbuto (174) and Gabe Dean (184) capped the night with dominant efforts in the finals as five Big Red wrestlers reached the podium at one of the nation's premier events.
• Garrett remained unbeaten since his move up to 133 pounds by knocking off undefeated defending national champion Corey Brewer of Oklahoma, the event's top seed.
• He rallied from an early 7-2 deficit for an impressive 14-9 victory to claim his third title, joining four-time champion Logan Stieber (Ohio State, 2011-14) and fellow three-time champions Ben Askren (Missouri, 2004-06), Andrew Howe (Oklahoma/Wisconsin, 2009-10, 13) and fellow Big Red great Mack Lewnes (Cornell, 2008-10).
• Dean will have a chance to join Garrett on that list a year from now after earning his second crown with a dominant 15-6 major decision victory over 12th-ranked Dominic Abounader of Michigan.
• Rounding out the championship performances was a dominant 11-1 finals win by Realbuto over No. 15 Bryce Hammond of Cal-Bakersfield.
• Missouri won the team title with 154 points with Cornell settling in as the runner-up with 113 points.
• Cornell won the 2010 title and has now finished in the top six in each of the last eight seasons and five times in the top three.
• The Big Red has won 17 individual titles dating back to 2004, including at least two in three straight years.

GRAPPLE AT THE GARDEN
• The Cornell wrestling team got into early holes in both dual matches and couldn't make up enough ground late as the Big Red dropped a 21-14 decision to No. 5 Nebraska and a 21-13 contest to No. 14 Rutgers on Nov. 29, 2015 at the Grapple at the Garden in Madison Square Garden.
• Cornell's three returning All-Americans, the staples of the Big Red lineup, each went 2-0 on the day with Nahshon Garrett topping a pair of nationally ranked wrestlers at 133.
• Garrett earned an 11-3 major decision victory over Nebraska's 10th-ranked Eric Montoya and captured a 6-1 decision over No. 17 Anthony Giraldo of Rutgers.
• No. 2 Brian Realbuto topped Nebraska's 15th-ranked 174-pounder 9-6 and defeated Phil Bakuckas of Rutgers 6-1.
• Top-ranked Gabe Dean had an 11-3 major decision over Nebraska's seventh-ranked T.J. Dudley and overcame a slow start to major Nicholas Gravina of Rutgers, 13-5.
• Freshman heavyweight Jeramy Sweany had an outstanding effort in a 5-2 win over No. 13 Collin Jensen in the first dual before a closer-than-the-final-score 8-1 loss to No. 7 Billy Smith of Rutgers.

NEW YORK STATE INTERCOLLEGIATE CHAMPIONSHIPS
• Cornell pinned its way to a fourth consecutive New York State Wrestling title, easily securing the title by winning five individual titles and cruising past second place Army 202-171 at Barton Hall.
• Binghamton (133.5), Buffalo (136) and Columbia (123.5) rounded out the top five teams.
• Nahshon Garrett (133), Dylan Realbuto (141), Duke Pickett (165), Brian Realbuto (174) and Gabe Dean (184) all won titles, two more Big Red wrestlers reached the finals (Dalton Macri medically forfeited to second at 125; Will Koll lost to teammate Dylan Realbuto in a one-point decision in the finals) and the other three reached the semifinals, with Jeramy Sweany medically forfeiting out the rest of the tournament after winning his first two matches at heavyweight by fall.
• Winning by fall became a theme on the day, as the Big Red won 15 matches by pin in the championship bracket, where its 10 scoring wrestlers posted a cumulative 35-4 record with 26 bonus point victories.
 
DAKE '13 CLAIMS SENIOR NATIONAL FREESTYLE CHAMPIONSHIP
• Needing to finish in the top seven at his weight class to qualify for the Olympic Trials, Kyle Dake did that and more in Las Vegas, Nev., on Dec. 19.
• At a new weight, Dake battled his way to the 2015 U.S. Senior Freestyle National championship by defeating rival David Taylor in the finals, 11-4.
• Entering the tournament as the No. 7 seed, Dake nearly won by tech fall in the first 30 seconds against Taylor with an opening takedown before rolling him three times to expose Taylor's back for two points each to gain an 8-0 lead, but Taylor reversed to cut the lead to 8-2.
• Taylor looked to be getting back into the match after earning a takedown to make it 8-4, but Dake reversed him and rolled him again to make it 11-4 at the end of one.
• Dake defended throughout the second period with no points being scored.
• He moved to 7-0 all-time against Taylor in collegiate and international competition.
• Dake, who was underseeded largely due to his recent move to the 86kg from 74kg, topped Titan Mercury Wrestling Club teammate Tyrel Todd by fall 1:53 into his first match.
• In the quarterfinals, Dake controlled the match against Titan teammate Keith Gavin, the No. 2 seed in the tournament, en route to a 6-2 win by decision.
• Dake won a nailbiter in the semifinals against No. 3 seed Jon Reader, earning the first two takedowns of the match to build a 4-0 lead on his way to a 6-4 triumph to reach the finals.

NEXT UP
• With the season complete, Cornell will begin defense of its 14 straight Ivy League and 10 consecutive EIWA titles when practice begins in the fall.