HEAD COACH ROB KOLL
• Cornell head coach Rob Koll is in his 25th season at Cornell (282-89-5, .757; 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 NORTH DAKOTA STATE
• The Bison are 1-4, though three of its losses have come to nationally-ranked teams (No. 3 Oklahoma State, No. 8 Iowa and No. 13 Northern Iowa), and its only win came against No. 18 Central Michigan at home.
• NDSU has a pair of ranked wrestlers in the middle weights, as Clay Ream sits No. 14 at 157 and Andrew Fogarty is No. 18 at 165.
• In addition, 133-pounder Cam Sykora has also been ranked during the season.
• The four-time NCAA Division II champions now wrestle in the Big XII and have claimed 10 Division I All-Americans.
• Seventh-year head coach Roger Kish sports a 56-47 overall dual meet record with the Bison.

CORNELL-NORTH DAKOTA STATE SERIES
• This will be the first-ever meeting between the two programs.

ABOUT MINNESOTA
• Minnesota is off to a 3-1 dual meet start, with its lone loss at Oklahoma State (30-3) and wins over Air Force (29-6), South Dakota State (20-12) and Fresno State (38-7).
• The Golden Gophers feature five nationally-ranked wrestlers in their lineup, led by 125-pounder Ethan Lizak at No. 4.
• Also ranked in the top 10 are Mitch McKee (No. 8 at 133), Nick Wanzek (No. 9 at 165) and Tommy Thorn (No. 10 at 141), while 157-pounder Jake Short is No. 12 at 157.
• Golden Gopher alum Brandon Eggum is in his second season as head coach and 17th on the staff.
• During his time on the sidelines, Minnesota has grabbed 66 All-America honors, 27 Big Ten individual crowns and nine NCAA champions.

CORNELL-MINNESOTA SERIES
• Minnesota leads the all-time series 8-3 in a series that started during the 1960-61 season.
• The two squads first met on Feb. 2, 1961, a 16-11 Minnesota win in Minneapolis.
• Cornell has won three of the last four matchups after the Golden Gophers won the first seven.

LAST TIME VS. MINNESOTA
• When Brian Realbuto suffered a devastating knee injury in the All-America round at the 2014 NCAA championships, some might have questioned whether he would ever get back to the same level. 
• Less than a year later, at the 2015 Cliff Keen National Duals, Realbuto upset top-ranked and unbeaten Dylan Ness 9-3 at 157, swinging a nip-and-tuck match Cornell's way in a 19-17 dual meet victory over Minnesota.
• The win ended Minnesota's string of three consecutive National Duals titles. 
• The dual was a rematch of the 2014 tournament championship matchup, won by the Golden Gophers, 24-15.
• Sandwiched by Chris Villalonga's 2-1 win over Jake Short at 149 and Dylan Palacio's dominant 17-2 tech fall over No. 17 Nick Wanzek at 165, the three-match run by the Big Red sealed the victory.

ABOUT KENT STATE
• Kent State is 6-2 in dual meet action (0-1 MAC), though it has lost two straight (38-9 at Ohio State, 16-15 at Buffalo).
• Four Golden Flash wrestlers are ranked in the top four of the MAC rankings, led by No. 2 Stephen Suglio at 197.
• At 157, Casey Sparkman is third in the conference rankings, while Anthony Tutolo (133) and Nick Monico (149) are ranked fourth.
• Head coach Jim Andrassy has spent 26 years on the Kent State sideline, including the last 13 as head coach , and sports a 165-110-1 record.
• He has developed seven All-Americans, an NCAA champion (Dustin Kilgore in 2011) and produced three top 25 team finishes. 

CORNELL-KENT STATE SERIES
• This will be the first-ever meeting between the two programs.

ABOUT MISSOURI
• Missouri is off to an 8-0 start in dual meet competition, including a top 10 win over Virginia Tech.
• The five-time defending MAC tournament champion brings in six nationally-ranked grapplers, including four who reside in the top five in their respective weight classes.
• Leading the way is second-ranked Willie Miklus at 197 and fourth-ranked Daniel Lewis at 174 and Joey Lavallee, an NCAA runner-up a season ago, at 157.
• Jaydin Eierman is also in the top five at 141, while John Erneste is ninth at 133 and Grant Leeth is No. 16 at 149.
• Head coach Brian Smith, a five-time conference coach of the year, spent five seasons as assistant coach at
Cornell under both Jack Spates and current Big Red mentor Rob Koll and has a career record of 256-96-3.

CORNELL-MISSOURI SERIES
• Missouri leads the all-time series 7-2 in a series that started in 2002.
• The Tigers won that first meeting in Ithaca, 27-12, at Newman Arena on Feb. 23, 2002.
• Missouri also won duals in Columbia, Mo., in 2008 (21-13) and Ithaca in 2009 (18-14), took a 22-12 victory at the Grapple at the Garden in 2012 and earned wins in Ithaca in both 2015 (27-9) and 2017 (25-12).
• Cornell earned its first win over Missouri at the 2010 National Duals in Cedar Falls, Iowa (23-15), then
pulled out an 18-15 decision a year later at the Duals.
• The Tigers climbed out to a 25-0 lead last winter over the Big Red and cruised to a 25-11 victory at Friedman Wrestling Center.

LAST TIME VS. MISSOURI
• The Cornell wrestling team won the final three matches of the dual, but Missouri's strength early proved too much to overcome as the ninth-ranked Tigers raced out to a 25-0 lead and handed the Big Red a 25-11 defeat on Jan. 14, 2017 at Friedman Wrestling Center.
• Senior Brian Realbuto swept the weekend at 184 in place of two-time defending national champion Gabe Dean with a major decision victory over Matt Lemanowicz to begin a string of three consecutive wins to complete the dual. 
• Ben Honis majored Jayden Bears at 197, rebounding from a loss the previous night, as did heavyweight Jeramy Sweany, a 4-0 winner over Austin Myers.
• Missouri's first six wins of the dual all came with highly-ranked wrestlers earning wins, though only three came against Big Red starters at their natural weights. 

LAST TIME OUT
• The Cornell wrestling team put on a show, winning 8-of-10 matches en route to a 31-6 victory over Buffalo on Jan. 18 at Mayhem on the Mainstage at UB's Center for the Arts. 
• The win, Cornell's 799th dual meet victory in school history, ended with six straight wins - including Chaz Tucker's thrilling 3-2 overtime victory over No. 16 Bryan Lantry at 133 pounds. 
• Freshman Max Dean opened the meet with a solid 14-3 triumph over Brett Perry at 184, followed by a solid 5-1 win for Ben Honis at 197. 
• The Bulls won the next two matches to get back within 7-6, but Tucker's upset at 133 made sure the home team's momentum was squashed. 
• The Big Red won by fall at 141 (Yianni Diakomihalis) and 165 (Jon Jay Chavez) to turn the close dual into a rout.

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 108-22-1 (.828) 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 77 consecutive dual meets against unranked teams dating back to the beginning of the 2007-08 season.
• Cornell has won 34 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 34-match win streak against teams from New York dating back to 2004, including 18 consecutive at home.
• The Big Red is 257-81-3 all-time against teams from New York state in its history — Army (11-17-1), Binghamton (7-0), Brooklyn Poly (2-0), Buffalo (8-4), 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 282-89-5 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 kick off a four-game homestand when EIWA rival Lehigh visits the Friedman Wrestling Center on Friday, Jan. 19 at 6:30 p.m.
• Cornell and Lehigh have been the dominant programs in the EIWA for the last two decades, combining to win 18 of the last 19 championships.