ITHACA, N.Y. –  The No. 10 Cornell wrestling team travels all 10 wrestlers to the NCAA Championship on March 20-22 in Philadelphia, Pa. at the Wells Fargo Center. The ESPN family of networks will stream every match live. 

DUAL INFO

at NCAA Championships

March 20-22

Wells Fargo Center

Watch || Tickets

Prelims | Thursday, March 20 at noon

Prelims and wrestle-backs | Thursday, March 20 at 7 p.m.

Quarterfinals and wrestle-backs | Friday, March 21 at noon

Semifinals and wrestle-backs | Friday, March 21 at 8 p.m.

Consolation finals | Saturday, March 22 at 11 a.m.

Championship finals | Saturday, March 22 at 7 p.m.

 

PHILLY BOUND

65 teams, 330 wrestlers, 80 All-Americans, 10 Champions, and 1 Most Outstanding Wrestler head to the Wells Fargo Arena to battle for the top marks.

Cornell is one of four schools (Penn State, Northern Iowa, Ohio State) to qualify all 10 wrestlers. The Big Red earned 10 of the 26 allotted spots for the Ivy League into the NCAA Tournament. This is the second consecutive year 10 Big Red wrestlers will be at the national championships and the third time nine or more wrestlers have qualified for the NCAA Championships under Mike Grey.

Four wrestlers earn top-10 seeds in their weight classes including highest ranked Meyer Shapiro (#2 at 157), Julian Ramirez (#5 at 165), Simon Ruiz (#5 at 174) and Chris Foca (#6 at 184).

IVY LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIP RECAP

Cornell won the Inaugural Ivy League tournament with 135.5 team points while qualifying all ten wrestlers for the 2025 NCAA Wrestling Championships.

Meyer Shapiro was voted by the other Ivy League coaches as the Most Outstanding Wrestler of the Tournament after defeating Jude Swisher 19-2 by technical fall in the 157-pound championship bout.

Julian Ramirez and Simon Ruiz each won their championship bouts with two takedowns over their opponents.

Chris Foca made Max Hale of Penn work going into a sudden victory overtime with a takedown to finish the bout 8-5.

Ashton Davis waited all day for his opportunity to punch his ticket to the NCAA tournament. In the final bout of the night, he did just that with a 5-1 win over Vincent Mueller to solidify his spot in the tournament and Cornell's team victory.

Tyler Ferrara, Ethan Fernandez and Mikey Dellagatta each placed second in their respective classes.

PROJECTED LINEUP THIS WEEK

125- No. 32 seed Marcello Milani

133- No. 29 seed Tyler Ferrara

141- No. 20 seed Josh Saunders

149- No.18 seed Ethan Fernandez

157- No. 2 seed Meyer Shapiro

165- No. 5 seed Julian Ramirez

174- No. 5 seed Simon Ruiz

184- No. 6 seed Chris Foca

197- No. 27 seed Mikey Dellagatta

285- No. 29 seed Ashton Davis

WRESTLER HIGHLIGHTS

Meyer Shapiro was named the Ivy League Wrestler of the Year and Most Outstanding Wrestler at the Ivy League Tournament as the highest ranked Ivy League wrestler with a 11-1 overall record and Ivy League Title at 157 pounds. Shapiro's most notable wins this season came in December against No. 10 Ed Scott of NC State and then in the last dual against Bucknell's No. 22 Jude Swisher. Of his 11 wins, seven are bonus with five technical falls, one major decision and one fall. Going into the tournament on a 11-bout streak, Shapiro looks to rise to the top of the 157-bracket starting with a win over Noah Castillo, his first match up.

Julian Ramirez, now a four-time NCAA qualifier, will be looking to break through and become an All-American for the first time in his career. For the past three years Ramirez has lost in the Round of 12, one win shy of becoming an All-American. He did so last year as the No. 3 seed at 165 pounds. The Ivy League Champion and two-time EIWA Champion is coming into this tournament undefeated after mid-season return to the lineup. He is 13-0 and has the No. 5 seed.

In his second season at 184, Chris Foca heads into the NCAA Championships undefeated (13-0), an Ivy League Champion and has earned a top-10 seed at No.6. An All-American in 2023 at 174, Foca looks to avenge his early exit in the Round of 12 last season. Foca has earned seven bonus point matches of his 13.

As the Ivy League Rookie of the year, Ruiz has already made his mark at Cornell. The freshman is 21-5 on the season and undefeated in Ivy matches with the Ivy Tournament title at 174 pounds. Ruiz has remained in the top 15 all season picking up seven wins over ranked opponents and led the team in bonus wins throughout the season with 14, eight being technical falls, tied for fourth most by a Cornell Wrestler in a single season. With a championship run at the tournament, Ruiz would join Kyle Dake (2010) and Yianni Diakomihalis (2018) as the third Cornell wrestler to win an NCAA title as a freshman. Only 35 freshmen have done that in NCAA history.

CORNELL'S HISTORY AT NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS

• Cornell came in third with 72.5 team points at last year's tournament. It was the    fourth-highest NCAA finish in program history.
• Cornell has 23 top-10 finishes in the tournament in program history.
• Cornell has two other second-place finishes: 2010 and 2011. This is the first time Cornell has finished in the top five in consecutive seasons since the program's five-year run from 2009-13.
• Cornell is one of two programs (Penn State) in the country with two four-time NCAA Champions (Dake and Diakomihalis).
• Cornell has 25 national champions all-time, tied for seventh in the country.
• Cornell has had 19 champions since 2000, the third most in the country in that span.
• Cornell and Iowa are the only two schools to finish in the top 10 at NCAAs every year since 2008 except 2021 (the Ivy League did not compete due to COVID-19).
• Cornell has had at least one champion in five straight tournaments, the second-longest active streak behind Penn State (14)
• Cornell has at least two wrestlers seeded in the top five in their weight class for its ninth straight tournament.
• The Big Red has amassed at least 50 team points in 18 of its last 20 NCAA tournaments. It hasn't finished lower than 12th in any of those years.

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