HEAD COACH ROB KOLL
• Cornell head coach Rob Koll is in his 25th season at Cornell (281-89-5, .756; 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 BUFFALO
• Buffalo is coming off its best season in 13 years after going 11-6 a year ago.
• NCAA qualifiers Bryan Lantry (No. 16 at 133) and Jake Gunning (No. 20 at 285) lead the Bulls into action this season.
• Picked third in the preseason Mid-American Conference poll, five wrestlers are ranked in the latest MAC rankings — Gunning is first at heavyweight, Lantry is second at 133, and Kyle Akins (125), Brett Perry (184) and Joe Ariola (197) are each fourth at their respective weight classes.
• Fifth-year head coach John Stutzman, a 1998 graduate of Buffalo, enters the matchup with a 32-49 mark coaching the Bulls.
• He previously served as head coach at Bloomsburg for eight years.

CORNELL-BUFFALO SERIES
• Cornell leads the all-time series 7-4 after Cornell won last year's meeting, 18-15, thanks to a Gabe Dean pin at 184.
• Buffalo's last win in the series came in 2000-01, a 21-19 triumph.
• The two teams first met during the 1949-50 campaign, a 17-13 Big Red triumph.

LAST TIME VS. BUFFALO
• Despite missing four NCAA tournament qualifiers in its season debut, the Cornell wrestling team kept the train rolling with an 18-15 dual meet victory over Buffalo on Nov. 19, 2016 at Newman Arena.
• Two-time NCAA champion Gabe Dean's pin at 184 pounds proved to be the difference.
• The Big Red lost four of its five matches by a single point and won each of its decisions by at least five points, but in the end the difference was a dominant senior doing what he does.
• Dean was well on the way to a bonus point victory over Brett Perry before putting his shoulders to the mat 27 seconds into the third period.
• That gave Cornell some breathing room at 18-9 before Buffalo won a pair of one-point decisions in the final two weights to fall just short.
• Four of Cornell's five ranked wrestlers earned wins, with only No. 15 Mark Grey falling by a 3-2 decision at 133 pounds to NCAA qualifier Bryan Lantry.
• Fifth-ranked Brian Realbuto made his season debut and first public appearance since suffering an injury at the NCAA championships and shook off some early rust before earning a 9-4 win over Muhamed McBryde at 174.
• Joey Galasso and Brandon Womack, both ranked #20 at their respective weights, each had dominant wins, but fell short of pulling bonus points with six- and seven-point triumphs.

A WIN OVER BUFFALO WOULD
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• extend the Big Red's lead in the all-time series to 8-4.
• make the Big Red 257-81-3 (.758) all-time against teams from New York state, including 34 straight dating back to a 16-15 loss to Hofstra at the 2004 National Duals.
• extend the program's win streak against unranked opponents to 76 consecutive matches dating back to 2007-08.
• give the Big Red an 800-398-20 (.665) all-time dual meet record.

LAST TIME OUT
• Freshman Yianni Diakomihalis became the 19th Cliff Keen Las Vegas Invitational champion in Cornell history, remaining unbeaten on the season with a pair of wins over ranked wrestlers on Dec. 2.
• His heroics allowed the Big Red to finish eighth in the team race with three placewinners and 62 team points.
• It was the 10th consecutive year the Big Red has crowned at least one champion at the event and finished in the top eight.
• Diakomihalis was joined on the podium by juniors Jon Jay Chavez (165) and Jeramy Sweany (285), both eighth-place finishers.
• The rookie won a wild sudden victory decision over Wyoming All-American Bryce Meredith, then controlled Northern Iowa's Josh Alber from start to finish to claim his second victory of the season over the Panther grappler, this time 8-2.

CORNELL AT THE NEW YORK STATE CHAMPIONSHIPS
• Cornell won a record 13th New York State Intercollegiate Championship on Nov. 19 at Barton Hall, crowing six individual champions.
• It was the sixth consecutive title for the Big Red.
• 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 93 individual titles over the years and 13 team titles, tied with Army West Point (13) and four 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 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 107-22-1 (.768) in dual meet competition in the last eight seasons.
• The Big Red is 43-6 (.878) in its last 49 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 six consecutive New York State team titles.

TEAM NOTES TO KNOW
• 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 sixth consecutive New York state intercollegiate title in 2017-18, surpassing Buffalo's run from 1974-78 as the longest in tournament history.
• 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.
• Since the Friedman Wrestling Center opened in January of 2003, the Big Red is 70-14-1 in dual matches (.829) there.
• 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 281-89-5 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 have a short holiday break before resuming action at the South Beach Duals beginning on Friday, Dec. 29 in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
• Cornell will face No. 4 Missouri, North Dakota State, Kent State and No. 8 Minnesota during the two-day event.