• Cornell head coach Rob Koll is in his 26th season at Cornell (306-93-5, .764; 121-8-1 Ivy, .935)
• 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 17 straight Ivy League titles (20 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.

THE CORNELL-OHIO STATE SERIES
• The Big Red leads the all-time series 7-6-1 dating back to the first-ever meeting between the programs in 1928-29.
• The Big Red lost that first-ever meeting in Columbus 15-13 on March 2, 1929.
• Cornell has won five of the last seven meetings dating back to 2004 with four of those contests being decided by a single team point.
• The Big Red won the last meeting 19-18 on Feb. 19, 2017 at Newman Arena in Ithaca.
• The Buckeyes last earned a win in the series during the 2009-10 campaign, a 27-14 win in Cedar Falls..

LAST TIME VS. OHIO STATE
• Senior Brian Realbuto beat top-ranked Bo Jordan at 174 pounds and No. 1 Gabe Dean defeated defending NCAA champion Myles Martin at 184, but it was sophomore Jeramy Sweany's victory at heavyweight that lifted Cornell to a 19-18 upset win over No. 4 Ohio State on Feb. 19, 2017. 
• Realbuto, a two-time NCAA All-American and 2015 national finalist, upset the unbeaten Jordan thanks to a first period takedown just 16 seconds in. 
• That was the difference, as both earned escape points at the change and scrambles in the late second and third resulted in no scoring, much to the chagrin of Ohio State's coaching staff that requested a video review on one. 
• The call was upheld, and Realbuto defended a shot late to pick up the win, his 111th in a Cornell singlet.
• Dean was just as impressive against the reigning champion at 174 pounds, controlling the center against Martin throughout. 
• Dean used four swipes in the third as he locked in a cradle for a six-point move, but the very near pin wasn't called and the two-time defending champion at 184 pounds improved to 27-0 on the season with a 10-5 victory.
• Trailing 18-16 heading into the heavyweight match and with Buckeye Olympic gold medalist Kyle Snyder sitting the dual out, Cornell's Sweany picked up the lone takedown, earned an escape and a riding point for the clinching 4-0 win over Josh Fox, igniting the crowd and giving the Big Red its win over a top five team for the first time since knocking off fourth-ranked Minnesota 19-17 at the 2015 National Duals. 
• It was the program's first home win over a top five squad since a 21-16 victory over the third-ranked Gophers in 2011, also at Newman Arena.

LAST TIME OUT
• Cornell completed a successful run through ACC country, winning each of the final nine matches, including four against ranked Tar Heel wrestlers, as the Big Red dropped No. 13 North Carolina on Feb. 16 at Carmichael Arena.
• Adam Santoro got the Big Red going after fourth-ranked Austin O'Connor started the dual with a tech fall win at 149 pounds to stake the home team to a 5-0 lead. 
• Santoro edged No. 20 Josh McClure in a mild upset at 157, the first of consecutive 3-2 victories for Cornell. 
• Andrew Berreyesa had the lone takedown in a win over Sawyer Davidson at 165, and 14th-ranked Brandon Womack continued the momentum with a 4-1 win over Devin Kane, riding out Kane in the third to pick up the victory. 
• In the feature match of the night, Max Dean won a hard-fought 5-2 victory over No. 14 Chip Ness at 184 pounds. 
• Ben Honis majored Brandon Whitman at 197 and Jeramy Sweany earned a big 6-4 victory at heavyweight over No. 20 Cory Daniel in a heavyweight matchup. 
• The Big Red rolled in its final three matches, with Vitali Arujau nearly earning a tech fall over Joe Heilman, 17-4 at 125, and top-ranked Yianni Diakomihalis claiming a 9-2 triumph over A.C. Headlee to close the dual. 
• Chas Tucker earned a second key weekend win over a ranked opponent, dropping No. 20 Gary Wayne Harding at 133.

THE STREAKS
• Cornell and Iowa are the only two schools to finish in the top 10 at NCAAs every year since 2008.
• 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 is 71-2 (.973) in its last 73 duals against current EIWA competitors dating back to 2010-11.
• Cornell is 110-5-1 (.953) in dual meet action against current EIWA teams dating back to 2004-05, including 98-0 against teams other than Lehigh.
• Head coach Rob Koll's teams have racked up 17 Ivy League titles in a row, the longest title streak in any sport in conference history.
• Cornell has won 88 consecutive Ivy League dual meets dating back to the 2001-02 campaign.
• Sophomore Yianni Diakomihalis enters the weekend with an individual 37-match win streak.
• Big Red wrestling is 91-2 in dual meets (.978) against unranked teams dating back to the beginning of the 2007-08 season.
• Cornell is 113-20 (.850) in dual meet competition in the last nine seasons.
• Cornell is 48-5 (.906) in its last 53 road dual matches after having its 12-meet win streak away from home at Lehigh on Jan. 12.
• 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 52-6 (.897) in its last 58 home duals dating back to the 2009-10 season.
• Sophomore Max Dean is 28-1 and classmate Yianni Diakomihalis is 26-1 in dual matches for their career, with freshman Vitali Arujau unbeaten at 15-0.
• Cornell has won 36 straight meets against New York state opponents.

TEAM NOTES TO KNOW
• The Big Red has won 17 consecutive Ivy crowns and 88 straight Ivy matches.
• Cornell's 17 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.
• Cornell went 43-7 in individual Ivy matches in 2018-19, its best showing since going 43-6 during the 2010-11 campaign.
• The Big Red outscored its five Ivy League opponents by a 196-26 margin.
• Head coach Rob Koll became the eighth Big Red coach in any sport to reach 300 career victories with a win at Brown on Jan. 26, 2019 and now sports a 306-93-5 record in dual meets.
• Since the Friedman Wrestling Center opened in January of 2003, the Big Red is 77-14-1 in dual matches (.842) there.
• The Big Red holds a 36-match win streak against teams from New York dating back to 2004, including 18 consecutive at home.
• The Big Red is 259-81-3 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 (90-13), 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 RECEIVES NCAA SILVER ANNIVERSARY AWARD
• Dr. David Hirsch '94 received the NCAA's Silver Anniversary Award at the 2019 Honors Celebration on Jan. 23 during the 2019 NCAA Convention in Orlando, Fla. 
• He was 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 attempt to regain its EIWA title when it makes a short trip to Vestal, N.Y. on March 8-9 at the Binghamton Events Center.
• The Big Red will also look to qualify as many as 10 wrestlers for the 2019 NCAA Championships in Pittsburgh, Pa. beginning on March 21.