#11 CornellMatScouts Crystal Ball projected 2027 NCAA top 15 (Willie Saylor), mid-summer update
Cornell finished second in the country in 2024 and eighteenth in 2026. The talent did not leave, it just has not wrestled yet. The 2025 class alone signed Anthony Knox at number four, Jude Correa at nine and Alessio Perentin at sixteen, and not one of them has scored a point at an NCAA tournament.
What Cornell does when it does wrestle is not in question. They won 64 percent of their matches by bonus points last season, the highest rate of any team on this list, and 17.5 of their 21.5 points return. Eleventh assumes the freshmen finally turn up in the bracket.
Of the 21.5 team points Cornell scored at the 2026 NCAA Championships, wrestlers accounting for 17.5 points (81%) are back in the room this season. 4 points walked out the door. Hover over the bar for the breakdown.
2026 NCAA team points: returning vs. leaving
Where Cornell actually finished at the NCAA Championships each year (solid green line), next to where our development model expected a roster with these ratings to finish (dashed gray line). Hover over a point for the score.
Team finish at the NCAA Championships, 2022 to 2026
Impact score is our model’s one-number rating of a wrestler’s season, earned in the conference tournament and the NCAA bracket: the deeper the March run, the higher the score. Meyer Shapiro’s 73 was the best returning score on this roster last season.
Add up every season this roster wrestled in 2025-26 and it comes to 386 impact. 309 of it (80%) is already back in the room, 77 walked out the door through the portal.
Career impact score entering 2026-27
Simon Ruiz174 lbs
123
Jaxon Joy149 lbs
32Every weight, who is projected to hold it, what they did in the 2025-26 postseason, and who held the spot last March. All numbers are conference-tournament and NCAA matches only. Impact score is our model’s rating of a season: the 2025-26 number is what they earned, the 2026-27 number is what the model expects next.
No 2025-26 postseason matches. Stats begin when they reach a bracket.
Greg Diakomihalis (6th year)No NCAA bracket
Eligibility exhausted
No postseason data yet.
No 2025-26 postseason matches. Stats begin when they reach a bracket.
Tyler Ferrara (Jr)DNP at NCAAs (11 seed)
Back in 2026-27
No postseason data yet.
No 2025-26 postseason matches. Stats begin when they reach a bracket.
Vince Cornella (5th year)DNP at NCAAs (6 seed)
Eligibility exhausted
No postseason data yet.
Jaxon Joy (So)DNP at NCAAs (2 seed)
Back in 2026-27
No 2025-26 postseason matches. Stats begin when they reach a bracket.
Meyer Shapiro (Jr)8th at NCAAs
Back in 2026-27
No postseason data yet.
No 2025-26 postseason matches. Stats begin when they reach a bracket.
Benny Rogers (Fr)No NCAA bracket
Back in 2026-27
No postseason data yet.
Simon Ruiz (Jr)DNP at NCAAs (2 seed)
Back in 2026-27
Louis Cerchio (Fr)No NCAA bracket
Back in 2026-27
No 2025-26 postseason matches. Stats begin when they reach a bracket.
Aiden Hanning (Sr)No NCAA bracket
Back in 2026-27
No postseason data yet.
No 2025-26 postseason matches. Stats begin when they reach a bracket.
Ashton Davis (Sr)No NCAA bracket
Back in 2026-27
No postseason data yet.
The 2026 signing class, ranked by final big-board position. Expected entry score is the impact our model projects for a recruit’s first college season, set by where they finished on the board.
The 2026 cycle, in and out.
Benjamin Shvartsman165 · out to an undeclared destination · undeclared
Out
Brett Ungar133 · out to an undeclared destination · undeclared
Out
Christian Hansen184 · out to an undeclared destination · undeclared
OutThe full portal history, cycle by cycle, is in the Development section below.
What this roster did in the 2026 bracket, and where that ranks among every team that scored at the tournament.
Medians across the 70 programs that scored at the 2026 NCAA Championships.
2026 postseason pace, projected lineup only.
Simon Ruiz174 lbs
2.6
Jaxon Joy149 lbs
1.7
Louis Cerchio184 lbs
1.02026 postseason pace, projected lineup only.
Jaxon Joy149 lbs
2.5
Simon Ruiz174 lbs
1.0Every signee and every portal move this program has made since 2020, and what came of them. Expected is the rating our model projects: a first college season is measured against the wrestler’s big-board entry score, later seasons against the development model. Actual is the rating they earned. Click a wrestler to open their score card: the season-by-season receipt behind those career totals.
Greg Diakomihalis #36 boardno NCAA points yet
expected16actual20
Brett Ungar #26 boardno NCAA points yet
expected105actual114
Vince Cornella #50 boardno NCAA points yet
expected68actual112
Nico Provo #82 board’26: 3rd
no model expectation on file
Christian Hansen #167 boardno NCAA points yet
expected64actual6
Luke Duthie #199 boardno NCAA points yet
never reached a postseason bracket
Evan Canoyer #275 boardno NCAA points yet
expected1actual0
Ethan Fernandez #294 boardno NCAA points yet
expected89actual91
Aiden Hanning #96 boardno NCAA points yet
expected16actual19
Ashton Davis #238 boardno NCAA points yet
expected52actual59
Meyer Shapiro #1 board’24: 3rd · ’25: 5th · ’26: 8th
expected203actual318
Simon Ruiz #28 board’25: 5th
expected91actual171
Marcello Milani #69 boardno NCAA points yet
expected52actual32
Tyler Ferrara #88 boardno NCAA points yet
expected52actual74
Matt Furman #126 boardno NCAA points yet
expected1actual0
Jaxon Joy #24 boardno NCAA points yet
expected16actual56
Cash Henderson #70 boardno NCAA points yet
expected3actual0
Gabriel Bouyssou #129 boardno NCAA points yet
expected1actual0
Anthony Knox #4 boardno NCAA points yet
expected52actual0