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Vito missing always stings. Cornell is 11-4 on the year and Vito missing all 4 losses. The difference with this door was had Vito been in Cornell. Still loses the match if Vito is in against Ohio State and Lehigh, they only lost two by one point each, and clearly Cornell wins. Those two is him being out in those two matches were at the very least of nine point swing had Vito been in against Iowa State along with having Meyer and Ramirez and then Cornell Wednesday match to when you do the math on it, this one, not a chance

Cardenas was a U23 Bronze this year, and U23 Silver last year..never won a Gold. Cornella was really hurt, had to be carried off the mat vs Mizzou cause of Knee. I was at the match and I’m honestly surprised that he’s gonna be back for Binghamton tomorrow so the only other guy missing from Cornell is Vito. I know a lot of people act as if Cornell’s was missing half their line up, but thats not the case. One could argue that really, it was just Vito missing because I’m not sure Cornella would’ve done much better than Saunders did against Jack. But Cornell had 8 starters in

An absolute horrific example of this issue took place at Final X in regards to comparing the calls of the Yianni/Lee and Richards/Gilman matches. Not only were the grounded situations called in a consistent manner, but they actually penalized a wrestler who was grounded and did not penalize a wrestler who should have been. Richards who was getting backed out of bounds by Gilman literally just dropps to both knees intentionally to avoid push out point. What do they call ? Just call grounded. So no point awarded to Gilman, and they start back center mat. What should they have called ? Should have been a caution 1 against Richards and he should have then started down in parterre position center mat. Nick Lee is pushing Yianni back and Yianni attacks the same way he has a million times before where he fakes a shot right and tries to duck left. Nick Lee ultimately blocks the duck sending Yianni to his knees. Even then , Yianni attempts another shot from his knees to the right and Lee pushes Yianni out of bounds while Yianni is grounded . What do they call ? They caution -1 Yianni and have him start parterre center mat. This not only gives Lee a point but then he got 2 more points from that parterre with a trap arm followed by Yianni getting 1 point reversal. This decided the match as the final was 7-6. Lee should have not gotten the 1 point for caution 1 and should not have been in the position to get the 2 point exposure. Yianni would in turn not get the 1 point reversal. that’s a 2 point swing Yianni’s way in a 1 point loss. Now who is to say that the rest of the match doesn’t end differently if Lee is down instead of up in score. Bottom line, we will never know cause the officials screwed it up. This should have been called grounded as him being on his knees was a result of Lee’s defense against Yianni’s offensive action. It would be one thing if they both did what Richards did (going to his knees intentionally to be grounded ) and they called it two different ways in each match. It is another thing altogether when they call both scenarios wrong opposite of each other.