Chubby Prugar hits on handsome DeNichilo in revealing interview

Recently, 'Prince' senior writer Sofia Mata-Leclerc sat down with juniors Tim Prugar and Matt DeNichilo of the wrestling team. They discussed ladies, baseball and thefacebook.com.

The Daily Princetonian: How's the team looking this year?

Prugar: This team we have is probably the most solid team we've had since I've been here.

DeNichilo: The team vibe is really good this year. There's going to be a lot of guys who are really close to each other's talent level in each weight class and that's going to create a little more competitiveness. We picked up a lot of guys, too. We've got freshmen who are beating up on us now.

P: Yeah I'm not that big of a fan of the freshmen beating up on us.

D: It's always cool too because we have such a hard time recruiting against other EIWA schools just because the program has only been around in its current state for eight years. So you've got these high school guys who want to have, like, Iowa printed on their chests, and you've just got to show them the full deal and what a good time we all have as a team.

P: Yeah we've got [junior] Jake Butler at 197 [pounds], who is definitely a contender for the conference title. He's probably going to be a big standout on the team this year. I don't want to make fun of him too much because he might punch us in the face.

D: Yeah, we don't just have him for his swimming abilities. . . . He gets the whole team pumped up for the pool workouts, but he's not a bad wrestler either.

DP: Why do you think we decided to do a Q&A with DeNichilo?

P: Because . . . he's talented and good looking.

D: That's such a lie.

P: We're kind of like Joey and Ross, I guess — the one with his life together and the one that kind of screws around. Oh! The facebook picture! Your thefacebook.com picture.

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D: Is that the reason?

P: We can say on the record that Matt DeNichilo has the best picture on thefacebook.com. I think everyone should look it up, especially young ladies, because Matt is single.

D: I actually didn't have a choice. It was deemed necessary when I decided to finally put up a thefacebook.com profile last year.

DP: When was it taken?

D: Last fall, during an event . . . of sorts.

P: Pirate-themed.

D: Yes, a pirate-themed event of sorts. It was the pacifist event, as opposed to this year which was a debacle.

DP: Tim, if you had to write a singles ad for Matt what would it say?

P: It would probably be: Lanky, semi-well-mannered New Jerseyite. Stellar wrestling ability. Witty. Overaggressive, but genuinely a good-guy looking for same.

D: Yes, all those girls with great wrestling ability — bring them on. And overaggressive too.

DP: So Matt, if you had to write one for Tim what would it say?

D: Okay: Slightly plump yet in-shape Southerner. A good conversation over fattening ice cream is a must — wow, I don't know where to go with this, Prugar, I can only harp on the fat stuff for so long.

P: Charming . . . well mannered.

D: You are charming. He actually scolds me whenever I'm a disrespectful New Jersey person. His southern manners have slowly rubbed off on me in the last year, though.

P: I'm like a missionary trying to civilize the savages.

D: But thank God his southern wrestling abilities haven't rubbed off on me.

DP: So let's do some free association: Red Sox.

P: History.

D: Scumbags.

DP: Super Troopers.

P: Quality flick.

D: Syrup.

DP: "Aqua Teen Hunger Force."

P: Glory.

D: Carl.

P: Freaking awesome.

D: Freaking awesome, actually, that's probably more accurate.

DP: What's the best part of wearing a singlet?

P: It drives the ladies wild.

D: In some people's case. Neither of us can attest to that.

P: Mostly just mocking and repulsion is what we get.

DP: Do you two have any nicknames?

D: Prugar is Gordo. It means fat.

P: In Spanish. It's true.

D: Prugar is the only one on the team who can go through the three-mile runs and do all the crunches you can imagine and not develop a six-pack. I think even our heavyweights are developing some sort of definition.

P: I'm mocked mercilessly by my fellow teammates. Charlie Wiggins has adopted the somewhat loving nickname "Meatball" for me.

DP: Puff Daddy versus Biggie, who is better and why?

D: There is no comparison.

P: Absolutely Biggie, that is the most ridiculous question I've ever heard. What do you think, the pupil surpassed the teacher? No.

D: I do respect what P. Diddy is doing for the go out and vote movement.

P: Yeah vote or P. Diddy will kill me, that's really going to get me to the polls.

D: Yeah, I'm one of the few people who will do Biggie over Tupac.

P: I agree. It's all that California noise being thrown around this school.

DP: What was your worst or most interesting injury as a result of wrestling?

P: Oh, I broke my right leg freshman year, and McCosh Health Services said that it wasn't broken, and then two months later I went for a follow up because it still hurt, and they kind of gave me the, "Just kidding." It's alright, though, it was a hairline. It was hard to see.

D: Definitely my hip flexor last year is probably all I really got, but it can actually be a severely painful fact. It was a good deal though because a female trainer would have to apply the electric therapy machine, and she was not very bashful either.

DP: Okay, Yankees [DeNicholo's team] versus Chicago Cubs [Prugar's]?

P: I think it is safe to say the Cubs have the better fans, more loyal fans, nicer stadium, less New Jersey chuckies that cheer for them. But honestly, I'm glad that the Yankees were able to have their little run as the best team ever. But the Cubbies are where it's at.

D: I think that the Yankees fans being condemned to the pits of —

P: Humanity.

D: — being condemned to the pits of the baseball fans world here. You are not looking at the core groups of Yankees fans. You have some Italian New Jersey guys whose grandfather and great grandfather are still rooting for them since they were the team they grew up with. But I went to Wrigley this summer, and Wrigley was probably my favorite game, actually. Prugar's never been there.

P: I've been there.

D: You ever touched the ivy?

P : I've not touched the ivy.

D: We caught a home run in batting practice.

P: They called to tell me that, too. I was sitting at work.

D: Yeah I think the conversation went like this: Prugar, we're lost in Chicago, think you can help us? Okay, there's 50,000 fans behind us, there's ivy right in front of us and...there's a baseball game going on. And he's like, "Yeah, you guys are a———-."