• Cornell head coach Rob Koll is in his 26th season at Cornell (296-91-5, .761; 117-8-1 Ivy, .932)
• He 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 16 straight Ivy League titles (19 overall), 11 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 15 national titles with 67 All-Americans and 61 individual EIWA champions.

A WIN OVER NORTH DAKOTA STATE WOULD ...
• start Cornell off 4-0 in dual meets in 2018-19.
• extend the Big Red's dual meet win streak to 13 matches dating back to last year.
• even the all-time record between the teams at 1-1.
• make the Big Red 30-4 in dual meets over the last three years (.882).
• give Cornell a 3-2 record in the South Beach Duals.
• be the 297th career victory for head coach Rob Koll (296-91-5, .761).
• give the Big Red an 814-400-20 (.668) all-time dual meet record.

ABOUT THE SOUTH BEACH DUALS
• The brainchild of Cornell head coach Rob Koll and former Big Red assistant and current Missouri head coach Brian Smith, the South Beach Duals is in its second year of exisence and has grown from 12 to 16 Division I schools.
• The Big Red went 2-2 a year ago at the inaugural event, collecting wins over No. 8 Minnesota (22-19) and Kent State (27-7) and dropping matches to North Dakota State (20-16) and No. 4 Missouri (27-11).
• Eventual national champion Yianni Diakomihalis suffered his only collegiate loss at the event a year ago, falling to Missouri's Jaydin Eierman — he'd avenge the loss with a win over Eierman in the NCAA semifinals.
• He will again face third-ranked Eierman, as well as 16th-ranked Cole Weaver of Indiana, this season.
• Freshman Vitali Arujau, freshly ranked after making his debut at 125. will have an opportunity to climb the rankings with matches against No. 10 Brent Fleetwood of North Dakota State and Missouri's No. 16 Colby Smith.
• At 133, Cornell's Chas Tucker will face No. 9 John Erneste of Missouri and No. 12 Montorie Bridges of Wyoming, as well as No. 19 Cam Sykora of North Dakota State.
• Returning All-American Jon Jay Chavez will have a chance to make a strong debut at 165 with matches against No. 9 Branson Ashworth of Wyoming, No. 13 Connor Flynn of Missouri and No. 17 Andrew Fogarty of North Dakota State.
• Another former All-American, Brandon Womack at 174, will smatch up with No. 4 Daniel Lewis of Missouri, while heavyweight Jeramy Sweany will match up with No. 13 Zach Elam of Missouri and No. 20 Brian Andrews of Wyoming, who handed him one of his two losses this season.

LAST TIME OUT
• Sophomore Yianni Diakomihalis made his 2018-19 dual meet debut and Cornell ran off wins in the final three matches to overcome a deficit and top Northern Iowa 21-14 on Dec. 16 at West Gym in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
• Diakomihalis got Cornell off to a great start, running through No. 10 Josh Alber 12-2 as the meet opened at 141 pounds. 
• Diakomihalis posted the only four takedowns, surrendered just two escapes and piled on a top 10 ranked wrestler on the road. 
• Max Dean won the main event at 184 after halftime, erasing an early 4-1 deficit by dominating from the top position to rally for a 6-5 victory over No. 7 Drew Foster at 184. 
• Riding time proved to be the difference, as Dean avoided a last-second takedown attempt that needed to be reviewed before he was officially declared the winner.
• Vitali Arujau and Chas Tucker closed out the meet with major decision victories, with Arujau displaying explosiveness in his debut at 125 to give Cornell the lead, and Tucker dominating with a pair of takedowns and two separate two-point nearfalls to close out the dual win - the Big Red's 12th consecutive victory overall and on the road.
• Fredy Stroker earned a win at 157 and Jeramy Sweany evened his record at 2-2 on the season with a victory at heavyweight to wrap up the team's six triumphs on the day. 
• Cornell head coach Rob Koll, who won his 296th match on the Cornell sidelines, was honored in a pre-match ceremony — his father, Bill, went undefeated as a Panther to earn three NCAA wrestling titles in the late 1940s. 
• UNI's wrestling room is named in Bill's honor thanks to Sandy Stevens, who was also honored. 
• Koll and his family created an endowed scholarship to help future Panthers.

THE STREAKS
• The Big Red has won 12 consecutive dual meets (longest since 12 straight from 11/23/2013 until 2/17/2014) and 12 straight road dual meets (longest since 20 consecutive from 2/5/2011 until 2/21/2015). 
• Cornell has placed in the top five at the NCAA championships in six of the last 10 seasons and in the top 10 in 14 of the last 16 years (11 straight).
• The Big Red has crowned at least one EIWA champion in each of the last 17 seasons and in 27 of the last 28 years.
• The Big Red is 66-1 (.985) in its last 66 duals against current EIWA competitors dating back to 2010-11.
• Cornell is 105-4-1 (.959) in dual meet action against current EIWA teams dating back to 2004-05, including 93-0 against teams other than Lehigh.
• Head coach Rob Koll's teams have racked up 16 Ivy League titles in a row, the longest title streak in any sport in conference history.
• Cornell has won 83 consecutive Ivy League dual meets dating back to the 2001-02 campaign.
• Cornell is 122-24-1 (.833) in dual meet competition in the last eight seasons.
• The Big Red is 49-6 (.891) in its last 55 home duals dating back to the 2009-10 season.
• Big Red wrestling is 86-1 in dual meets (.989) against unranked teams dating back to the beginning of the 2007-08 season - the lone loss coming this season in a 20-16 loss to North Dakota State at the South Beach Duals that snapped a 77-match win streak against unranked opponents.
• Cornell has won 35 straight meets against New York state opponents.

TEAM NOTES TO KNOW
• Since the Friedman Wrestling Center opened in January of 2003, the Big Red is 74-14-1 in dual matches (.837) there.
• Cornell went 40-10 in individual Ivy League matches in 2017-18, its best mark since going 42-8 during the 2013-14 dual meet seasons.
• The Big Red has won 16 consecutive Ivy crowns and 83 straight Ivy matches.
• Cornell's 16 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 four 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.
• 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 296-91-5 record in dual meets.
• The Big Red holds a 35-match win streak against teams from New York dating back to 2004, including 18 consecutive at home.
• The Big Red is 258-81-3 all-time against teams from New York state in its history — Army (11-17-1), Binghamton (8-0), 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).

WORK IN CLASSROOM HONORED BY NWCA
• Cornell joined Minnesota as the lone NCAA wrestling schools to rank in the top 10 at both the national championships and the NWCA
All-Academic team list.
• Cornell ranked eighth nationally with its team 3.368 grade point average.
• Seniors Gabe Dean, Brian Realbuto and Dylan Palacio and freshman Noah Baughman were honored individually for their outstanding achievements in the classroom.
• Cornell ranked second among all schools with three All-Americans listed individually, behind only Ohio State's four.
• The Big Red moved up from last season's No. 17 ranking on the All-Academic list among 30 schools that posted a 3.1 GPA or better as a team.
• All six Ivy League schools were listed, with Harvard taking the top spot for the second straight year (3.586).
• Of the 30 teams, 22 were repeat selections from last year.

HIRSCH '94 TO RECEIVE NCAA SILVER ANNIVERSARY AWARD
• Dr. David Hirsch '94 has been chosen to receive the NCAA's Silver Anniversary Award at the 2019 Honors Celebration on Jan. 23 during the 2019 NCAA Convention in Orlando, Fla. 
• He will be joined in receiving the award by Tim Cullen (Air Force), Mia Hamm (North Carolina), Lisa Leslie (Southern California), Heath Shuler (Tennessee) and Jason Varitek (Georgia Tech). 
• The Silver Anniversary Award annually recognizes distinguished individuals on the 25th anniversary of the conclusion of their college athletics careers. 
• Hirsch was the 1994 NCAA Division I wrestling champion at 126 pounds. 
• He became the first Cornell student-athlete since 1960 and just the fifth in school history to win a national wrestling crown. 
• A member of the Cornell Athletics and Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association (EIWA) Halls of Fame, Hirsch was a three-time EIWA champion and a two-time All-American during his time on East Hill. 
• His record of 116-17 ranked third in career wins at Cornell at the time. 
• Following graduation in 1994 with a degree in Applied Economics & Management, Hirsch graduated from New York University College of Dentistry in 1999 and then completed medical school, wrapping up a six-year oral and maxillofacial surgery residency at Bellevue/NYU. 
• Today, Hirsch is chief of the Division of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery/General Surgery, Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York. 
• Throughout his professional career, Hirsch has traveled internationally for philanthropic purposes, performing surgeries ranging from correction of genetic deformities to major head and neck reconstruction. 

NEXT UP
• Cornell will square off with Lehigh on Jan. 12, 2019 at 2 p.m. in Bethlehem, Pa.
• Lehigh leads the all-time series 60-33-3, though the Big Red has won seven of the last eight meetings.
• Included was last season's 23-14 Big Red victory in Ithaca.