HEAD COACH ROB KOLL
• Cornell head coach Rob Koll is in his 25th season at Cornell (280-89-5, .755; 111-8-1 Ivy, .929).
• Koll is the David R. Dunlop '59 Head Coach of Wrestling at Cornell.
• The all-time winningest wrestling coach in program history, Koll has guided the Big Red to 15 straight Ivy League titles (18 overall), 11 consecutive EIWA crowns and eight top five NCAA team finishes, including second twice (2010, 2011).
• He was the 2005 NWCA Division I Coach of the Year and the Dan Gable Coach of the Year.
• His wrestlers have won 14 national titles with 59 All-Americans and 59 individual EIWA champions.

ABOUT NORTHERN IOWA
• Led by three wrestlers ranked in the top eight of their respective weight classes, Northern Iowa will also be opening its dual meet schedule this weekend.
• The Panthers bring back a slew of experienced wrestlers, including four that open the season nationally ranked — No. 19 Jay Schwarm (125), No. 3 Max Thomsen (149), No. 8 Taylor Lujan (174) and No. 4 Drew Foster (184).
• Thomsen took fifth at NCAAs a season ago, while Foster was seventh.
• Northern Iowa is beginning its first season as an affiliate member of the Big XII after winning a Mid-American Conference regular season title last year.
• Eighth-year head coach Doug Schwab guided the team to its best NCAA finish since 2005 (15th in 2013) and has coached eight All-Americans and 35 NCAA qualifiers while posting a 65-42 dual meet record.

CORNELL-NORTHERN IOWA SERIES
• Cornell leads the all-time series with UNI 3-0.
• It will be the first time the Big Red has welcomed Northern Iowa to Ithaca, as Cornell's previous wins have come at the Virginia Duals, at UNI in the NWCA Cliff Keen National Duals and at the Grapple at the Garden.
• The two teams first met during the 1996-97 season, a 19-14 Cornell win.
• The Big Red won the last meeting 35-4 on Dec. 21, 2014 at Madison Square Garden.

LAST TIME VS. NORTHERN IOWA
• The Big Red won its first nine bouts en route to a 35-4 victory over perennial power Northern Iowa on Dec. 21, 2014 at Madison Square Garden.
• The highlight was a top 10 matchup for Nahshon Garrett, who controlled the match throughout on his way to a 6-2 victory over No. 6 Dylan Peters.
• Gabe Dean continued to roll with a second period fall over Cody Caldwell, and Nick Arujau earned a tech fall at 141 over Jake Hodges, running the score up to 15-0 in the second period.
• The Big Red had clinched the dual after Duke Pickett's 4-1 win over Curt Maas, handing Koll his 250th victory.

CORNELL VS. BIG XII
• Cornell sports a 14-17 record against current members of the Big XII wrestling conference, including 3-0 against Northern Iowa.
• Cornell has wrestled matches against Iowa State (4-4), Oklahoma (6-8), Oklahoma State (0-5), West Virginia (1-0)
• The Big Red has never wrestled a dual against Air Force, Fresno State, Northern Colorado, North Dakota State, South Dakota State, Utah Valley or Wyoming.

THE BIG RED AT THE NEW YORK STATE CHAMPIONSHIPS
• Cornell first competed at the championships in 1979, sending a B team to compete and finishing ninth overall.
• The Big Red won its first title in 1992, claiming six champions in the 10 weight classes.
• Cornell has won 87 individual titles over the years and 12 team titles, second to only Army West Point (13) and three ahead of Buffalo (nine).
• Other teams to have won NYS titles are Syracuse (5), Brockport (3), Binghamton (2), Hofstra (2), Columbia (1) and St, Lawrence (1).
• The Big Red will be looking for its sixth straight title, surpassing Buffalo's record of five from 1974-78.
• Current Cornellians who have previously won New York State titles are Noah Baughman (2016), Will Koll (2016), Dylan Realbuto (2015) and Brandon Womack (2016).

LAST TIME AT THE NEW YORK STATE CHAMPIONSHIPS
• The Cornell wrestling team won its fifth straight New York state title, matching a 38-year old record, and crowned four individual champions on Nov. 20, 2016 at Newman Arena.
• Gabe Dean pinned his way to becoming the fourth four-time state champion in meet history and the second Cornellian, joining Jace Bennett '15.
• Noah Baughman (125), Will Koll (141) and Brandon Womack (165) all became first-time state champs.
• Cornell's 155 team points were comfortably ahead of Buffalo (132) and Columbia (118) for first place despite not having seven starters in the lineup.
• The Big Red had three finalists to go along with the fourth champions, as Taylor Simaz (157), Dillon Artigliere (165) and Milik Dawkins (174) all finished as the runner-up in their weight classes.

THE STREAKS
• Cornell has won 11 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 16 seasons and in 26 of the last 27 years.
• The Big Red is 58-1 (.983) in its last 59 duals against current EIWA competitors dating back to 2010-11.
• Cornell is 97-4-1 (.956) in dual meet action against current EIWA teams dating back to 2004-05, including 86-0 against teams other than Lehigh.
• Head coach Rob Koll's teams have racked up 15 Ivy League titles in a row, the longest title streak in any sport in conference history.
• Cornell has won 78 consecutive Ivy League dual meets dating back to the 2001-02 campaign.
• Cornell is 106-22-1 (.826) in dual meet competition in the last seven seasons.
• The Big Red is 42-6 (.875) in its last 48 home duals dating back to the 2009-10 season.
• Cornell has placed in the top five at the NCAA championships in six of the last nine seasons and in the top 10 in 13 of the last 15 years (10 straight).
• Big Red wrestling has won 76 consecutive dual meets against unranked teams dating back to the beginning of the 2007-08 season.
• Cornell has won 33 straight meets against New York state opponents.
• The Big Red has claimed a record five consecutive New York State team titles.

TEAM NOTES TO KNOW
• The Big Red has won 15 consecutive Ivy crowns and 78 straight Ivy matches.
• Cornell's 15 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 holds a 33-match win streak against teams from New York dating back to 2004, including 18 consecutive at home.
• The Big Red is 256-81-3 all-time against teams from New York state in its history — Army (11-17-1), Binghamton (7-0), Brooklyn Poly (2-0), Buffalo (7-4), Clarkson (2-0), Colgate (29-2), Columbia (89-13), Cortland (17-1), Geneseo (1-0), Hofstra (19-4), 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).
• Cornell registered its fifth consecutive New York state intercollegiate title in 2016-17, matching Buffalo's run from 1974-78 as the longest in tournament history.
• Since the Friedman Wrestling Center opened in January of 2003, the Big Red is 70-14-1 in dual matches (.829).
• 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 in 2014 and now sports a 280-89-5 record in dual meets.
• The Big Red's coaching staff has combined for 15 All-America accolades and five individual NCAA titles as collegiate athletes.

NEXT UP
• The Big Red will head off to the Cliff Keen Las Vegas Invitational beginning on Friday, Dec. 1.
• Cornell has nine straight top six finishes at the national event and has crowned champions each of those years, including eight over the last four tournaments.
• Cornell won the 2010-11 title and has placed in the top three five times in the last eight years.