HEAD COACH ROB KOLL
• Cornell head coach Rob Koll is in his 25th season at Cornell (289-91-5, .757; 114-8-1 Ivy, .931).
• 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 DREXEL
• The Dragons are 10-3 on the season and have won six of the last seven contests heading into Friday night, including an 18-14 win over No. 21 Rider in its last home dual.
• Fourth-ranked Austin DeSanto at 133 pounds leads the way for the Dragons, while 197-pounder Stephen Loiseau is ranked No. 20 this week.
• 2017 NCAA qualifier Alex DeCiantis (184) and Penn State transfer Garrett Hammond (157) are also among the top wrestlers in their weight class at EIWAs.
• Former Big Red assistant coach Matt Azevedo is in his seventh season as head coach of Drexel and sports a 63-67 record entering the weekend.

CORNELL-DREXEL SERIES
• Cornell leads the all-time series 10-1-1 dating back to the 1977-78 season when the teams first met, a 28-9 Big Red win in Ithaca.
• The Big Red won the first three duals and has gone 7-0-1 in its last eight, including last year's 24-18 triumph at Newman Arena.
• Drexel's only win over the Big Red came in a 22-14 Dragons victory in Princeton, N.J. during the 1985-86 campaign.

LAST TIME VS. DREXEL
• Bonus points decided Cornell's 24-18 win over No. 25 Drexel on Jan. 13, 2017 at Friedman Wrestling Center.
• The Big Red had two falls and three major decisions to pull away for the victory and improve to 10-1-1 all-time against the Dragons.
• Without the services of two-time national champion Gabe Dean, Cornell jumbled its lineup with mixed results.
• Senior All-Americans Dylan Palacio and Brian Realbuto had no problems going up a weight, with Palacio making his season debut with a 12-2 major decision over Austin Rose at 165 and Realbuto capturing a second period fall over Owen Brooks at Dean's usual weight, 184 pounds.
• Sophomore Brandon Womack, however, wasn't as fortunate, losing a 13-8 decision at 174 while also going up a weight class.
• Drexel picked up early momentum with a decisive tech fall by Tanner Shoap at 125 to open the deal, but Mark Grey answered with a first period pin of Brendan Hasson to give the home team the lead for good.
• Both Will Koll (141) and Taylor Simaz (157) earned major decision victories for the Big Red. The visitors earned third period comebacks to claim wins in the final two matches.

ABOUT PENN
• Penn is 8-5 on the season after splitting a pair of road Ivy matchups with Brown (25-17 loss) and Harvard (20-18 win) last weekend.
• Ninth-ranked Frank Mattiace leads the Quakers with a 22-3 mark entering the week, including a win over Cornell's Ben Darmstadt.
• NCAA qualifier May Bethea (18-6 at 165), Gianni Ghionne (14-6 at 133), Joe Heyob (16-6 at 184) and Joe Oliva (12-4 at 149) are also in the mix for All-Ivy honors.
• Hall of Fame coach and multiple-time EIWA and Ivy League champion Roger Reina is in his second go-round as head coach at his alma mater and has a 213-110-6 career mark.

CORNELL-PENN SERIES
• Cornell has a decisive 84-21-1 lead in the all-time series dating back to 1907-08.
• The Big Red has won 15 consecutive dual meets against the Quakers, including a 27-10 decision last season in Ithaca.
• Penn's last win came on Feb. 2, 2002, a 21-9 Quaker victory in Philadelphia, Pa.

LAST TIME VS. PENN
• The Cornell wrestling team set up a showdown for the Ivy League title with unbeaten Princeton thanks to a 27-10 victory over Penn at the Friedman Wrestling Center.
• Cornell won the final five matches to overcome a 10-7 deficit midway through the dual for its 77th straight Ivy win.
• A pair of Big Red seniors won battles against nationally ranked Quakers, Gabe Dean took career win number 142 via forfeit and Craig Scott and Brandon Womack bookended the second half of the dual to set up the championship rematch against Princeton.
• Brian Realbuto dominated the feature matchup of the day, turning 13th-ranked Casey Kent for two and posting the only takedowns of the match in an 11-3 major decision victory.
• After Dean had his hand raised for a forfeit victory, Owen Scott used a takedown with 40 seconds remaining in the third to overcome 17th-ranked Frank Mattiace for the win at 197 and twin brother Craig dominated Tyler Hall for a 17-3 major decision to close out the win.

ABOUT PRINCETON
• Princeton is 2-7 on the season (1-1 Ivy), though the Tigers have won two of the last three duals.
• The Tigers have three nationally ranked grapplers in the fold, led by returning All-American Matthew Kolodzik, who is ranked No. 12 at 149.
• Additionally, Patrick Brucki (No. 17 at 197), Mike D'Angelo (No. 18 at 157) and Jon Schleifer (165) all expect to be competing for NCAA trips and EIWA titles in March.
• The 2016 Ivy League Coach of the Year, Chris Ayres led the Tigers to a program-best third-place finish at EIWAs a season ago and has coached four All-Americans and three league champs.

CORNELL-PRINCETON SERIES
• Cornell leads the all-time series 56-15 dating back to the 1907-08 season when the teams first met.
• The Big Red has won 31 consecutive dual meets against the Tigers, including last year's 21-12 victory in Ithaca.
• Princeton's last win over the Big Red came in a 21-19 Tiger victory at home during the 1985-86 campaign.

LAST TIME VS. PRINCETON
• Cornell wrestling ran out to an 18-0 halftime advantage and cruised to its 15th straight Ivy League title with a 21-12 victory over Princeton on Feb. 11, 2017 at the Friedman Wrestling Center.
• The win clinched the Big Red's 38th league championship and extended the longest streak by any Ivy League team in any sport.
• The dual began at 157 and essentially ended at 197, as Cornell punctuated the halftime edge with a late third period takedown of 10th-ranked Brett Harner by Ben Honis for a 7-6 upset victory.
• That sent the match into the break with the home team essentially claiming the match.
• It didn't actually clinch the dual until after adding a sudden victory win by Noah Baughman at 125 and limiting the Tigers to three decisions by their ranked wrestlers, avoiding bonus points.
• Seniors Brian Realbuto and Gabe Dean, less than half an hour after being celebrated on Senior Day, scored nine total points with a major decision and technical fall, respectively.

LAST TIME OUT
• Freshman Ben Darmstadt put a damper on Lock Haven's senior day, earning a first period fall to rally 10th-ranked Cornell past the 23rd-ranked Bald Eagles 20-18 on Jan. 4 at Thomas Fieldhouse.
• The Big Red trailed 15-8 heading into the final four matches and were down 15-14 when Darmstadt pinned Trey Hartsock just 67 seconds into their 197-pound match, his 15th win by fall this season.
• A number of factors led to the Big Red rally, including hard-fought wins by Brandon Womack at 174 and Max Dean at 184 that allowed the Big Red to narrow the gap.
• Chaz Tucker earned a 6-4 victory at 133 and No. 4 Yianni Diakomihalis was dominant in a tech fall victory over Kyle Shoop, who has been ranked during the season.
• Tucker earned the only takedowns in his win over DJ Fehlman at 133, while Dean came back after giving up an early takedown against Corey Hazel at 184 to take a 5-2 win, improving to 22-2 on the season.
• Will Koll lost a tough 5-3 contest at 149 pounds to No. 16 Ronnie Perry, one of three nationally-ranked Bald Eagles' wrestlers to take victories on the afternoon.

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 62-1 (.984) in its last 63 duals against current EIWA competitors dating back to 2010-11.
• Cornell is 101-4-1 (.958) in dual meet action against current EIWA teams dating back to 2004-05, including 89-0 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 81 consecutive Ivy League dual meets dating back to the 2001-02 campaign.
• Cornell is 115-24-1 (.825) in dual meet competition in the last eight seasons.
• The Big Red is 47-6 (.887) in its last 53 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 is 81-1 in dual meets (.988) 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 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 81 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 72-14-1 in dual matches (.833) 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 289-91-5 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
• Cornell will close its non-conference schedule when it welcomes No. 25 North Carolina to the Friedman Wrestling Center on Friday, Feb. 16 at 6:30 p.m.
• The Big Red leads the all-time series 4-1 dating back to their first meeting in the 1992-93 campaign.
• Cornell won duals against the Tar Heels on consecutive days during the 1998-99 season, topping the Tar Heels 22-15 and 19-15.