Penn State Bracket Breakdown | Oklahoma State Bracket Breakdown | Ohio State Bracket Breakdown | Iowa Bracket Breakdown | Virginia Tech Bracket Breakdown | Ranked Higher In College Than In High School | Updated Hodge Rankings | Matches That Matter Most | NCAA Wrestling Brackets | NCAA Archived Match Videos

The first evening round of the 2017 NCAA Tournament is upon us! We'll keep you updated with all the big news of the second round right here!

Brackets and mat assignments will be updated live on FLOARENA.

Notes on the first session can be found here.

And please, VOTE FOR KYLE SNYDER FOR PRESTIGIOUS AAU SULLIVAN AWARD RIGHT NOW

TEAM STANDINGS AFTER ROUND 1
1st - Penn State (16 pts)
2nd - Oklahoma State (15 pts)
3rd - Ohio State (14 pts)
4th - Iowa (12 pts)
4th - Lehigh (12 pts)
4th - Missouri (12 pts)
7th - Minnesota (11 pts)
8th - Cornell (10.5 pts)
9th - Virginia Tech (10 pts)
10th - Nebraska (9.5 pts)

WRESTLING IN THE CHAMPIONSHIP - CONSOLATION
Penn State 8 - 1
Oklahoma State 9 -1
Ohio State 7-2
Iowa 7 - 2
Lehigh 5 - 2
Missouri 6 - 2
Minnesota 6 - 3
Cornell 4 - 2
Virginia Tech 7 - 0
Nebraska 6 - 4

We're starting the second session with the consolation pigtail matches, followed directly by the championship round of 16, and then back down to the consolation rounds. 90 seasons and many collegiate careers will come to an end tonight.

We just stood for the national anthem, which means it's go time.

Well after a brief "NCAA Lightshow" anyway.

PIGTAILS

125 consi pigtail features a MAC champ in Barlow McGhee of Missouri, and a 2X NCAA 6th place finisher, Dylan Peters of Northern Iowa. And Dylan Peters gets it done. He survives with a win and McGhee's season is over.

No. 6 Clay Ream of ND State at 157 was sent all the way down to the consolation pigtail after he was upset by Stanford's Paul Fox. He'll have Colt Shorts of Cal Poly now. Shorts wins a close one, and Clay Ream ends his season much earlier than expected.

Cleveland State hoping to leave St. Louis with at least one victory. Right now Nicky Corba is leading Campbell's Ville Heino 9-0 with 3+ minutes of riding time at 184. Corba wins and the Vikings will have another match. 

Penn's Brooks Martino is another winner, ending Ty White of Columbia's season at 165 pounds.

Utah Valley has a wrestler in the 197 and 285 consi pigtails, the last two still going. Both Utah Valleyians win, so we'll see two more Wolverine matches later tonight.

125

We back to the championship bouts. Darian Cruz of Lehigh is taking on the MAC Champ, Shakur Laney of Ohio. Darian Cruz survives but just barely. He wins by the smallest of scores, 1-0, and advances to the quarterfinals.

Ethan Lizak looking to take advantage of the hole in the bracket left by Suriano's scratch. He has a large lead on American's Josh Terao. But Terao get's 4 points with a headlock, but loses his grip and Lizak reverses for two. He's up 12-6 now. Lizak holds on to win by major decision.

No. 14 Freddie Rodriguez of NIU moves on the quarters by beating Akins of Buffalo.

Oklahoma State's sizable fan base cheers on as Nick Piccininni advances past Josh Rodriguez of ND State in a pivotable 8/9 match up.

Gilman of Iowa wins comfortably but misses out on a tech. He'll see Piccininni in the quarters in a match up with big team race implications.

No. 10 Mueller of UVA upsets Edinboro's no. 7 Sean Russell. He joins NC State's Fausz who also scored an upset over no. 5 Lambert of Nebraska.

FULL RESULTS
125 Thomas Gilman (Iowa) MD Nathan Kraisser (Campbell), 22-8
125 Nicholas Piccininni (Oklahoma St.) DEC Joshua Rodriguez (North Dakota St.), 5-2
125 Sean Fausz (North Carolina St.) DEC Tim Lambert (Nebraska), 3-1
125 Darian Cruz (Lehigh) DEC Shakur Laney (Ohio), 1-0
125 Freddie Rodriguez (Siue) DEC Kyle Akins (Buffalo), 7-5
125 Ethan Lizak (Minnesota) MD Josh Terao (American), 15-6
125 Jack Mueller (Virginia) DEC Sean Russell (Edinboro), 5-2
125 Joey Dance (Virginia Tech) MD Drew Templeman (Wyoming), 12-2

133

Cory Clark with a 5-0 advantage in the third, looking to beat Princeton's Pat D'Arcy, who upset no. 13 Earl Hall in the opening round. Cory Clark takes it and moves on.

Kaid Brock of OK State and Mitch McKee of Minnesota in a huge match. 2-1 at the end of two periods. Brock barely avoids a takedown at the edge of the mat to hold on to win 3-1, much to the relief of the Cowboy fans.

Bryan Lantry scores another win for Buffalo. He beat no. 6 Dom Forys of Pitt in an upset to advance.

A wild scramble at the end of the match between Richards of Illinois and Parker of Lehigh. Richards got the last two points to go ahead 8-6. It's under review now. Points waved off! We're getting bonus time! Another crazy scramble, and Parker gets dinged for backing out of bounds to give up a point and Richards wins! The crowd showers the ref with angry boos! Difficult way to end a match.

FULL RESULTS
133 Nathan Tomasello (Ohio St.) MD Cam Sykora (North Dakota St.), 21-7
133 Scotty Parker (Lehigh) DEC Zane Richards (Illinois), 7-6 SV
133 Stevan Micic (Michigan) DEC Josh Alber (Uni), 5-2
133 Cory Clark (Iowa) DEC Pat D`arcy (Princeton), 10-5
133 Kaid Brock (Oklahoma St.) DEC Mitch Mckee (Minnesota), 3-1
133 Dom Forys (Pittsburgh) DEC Bryan Lantry (Buffalo), 5-3
133 Eric Montoya (Nebraska) MD John Erneste (Missouri), 14-2
133 Seth Gross (South Dakota St.) TF Joseph Palmer (Oregon St.), 15-0 7:00

141

Penn State fans with their first wrestler of the evening. But Jimmy Gulibon is almost immediately taken down by Princeton's Kolodzik, dampening the mood. Gulibon can't solve Kolodzik, who wins 6-2.

Ohio State fans sitting right in front of Luke Pletcher as he tries to upset no. 5 Anthony Ashnault of Rutgers. They're shouting instructs at the ref to uphold a two point takedown for Pletcher. It is upheld, and Pletcher is hanging on to a 6-5 lead right now. Score is now tied, Ashnault rides out Pletcher, picks up a riding point and wins by a point, much to the dismay of the Buckeye fans with front row seats.

UVA's George DiCamillo gets an emphatic pinfall over Lehigh's Randy Cruz. He moves one match closer to his first All-American honor in four trips to the NCAAs.

Bryce Meredith of Wyoming advances to the quarters for the second time in his career, beating Hathaway of Oregon State, who was unable to score an upset for the second match in a row.

Minnesota's Tommy Thorn takes no. 3 seed Joey McKenna into sudden victory. And then gets the takedown and then a pin! The Gopher fans are going wild in the stands. Very politely wild!

Missouri's Eierman outlasts Nebraska's McCrystal 9-6, so the only upset in the round of 16 at 141 was Thorn over McKenna.

FULL RESULTS
141 Dean Heil (Oklahoma St.) DEC Jared Prince (Navy), 9-5
141 Jaydin Eierman (Missouri) DEC Colton Mccrystal (Nebraska), 9-6 SV
141 Anthony Ashnault (Rutgers) DEC Luke Pletcher (Ohio St.), 8-7
141 Matthew Kolodzik (Princeton) DEC James Gulibon (Penn St.), 6-3
141 Thomas Thorn (Minnesota) F Joey Mckenna (Stanford), 8:00
141 George Dicamillo (Virginia) F Randy Cruz (Lehigh), 4:36
141 Bryce Meredith (Wyoming) MD Johnathan Hathaway (Oregon St.), 8-0
141 Kevin Jack (North Carolina St.) DEC Tyler Smith (Bucknell), 4-0

149

Zain Retherford has been unleashed on Princeton's Jordan Laster. PSU hoping for more bonus points here. Retherford wins by the improbable score (if it wasn't Retherford wrestling anyway) of 16-0, and advances to the quarters, to the surprise of no one.

Ohio State's Micah Jordan finishes off Terrapin Baby J Bannister to the tune of 10-2.

Missouri's Lavion Mayes and Northern Illinois' Steve Bleise go into tiebreakers, where Mayes holds on and advances into the quarterfinals, avoiding the fate of fellow no. 3 seed Joey McKenna.

UPSET ALERT! Unseeded Alex Kocer of SD State take out no. 9 Justin Oliver of Central Michigan.

BIGGER UPSET ALERT!!! Ken Theobold of Rutgers gets 2 and 4 in sudden victory to beat Anthony Collica of OK State. If it stands after a coaches challenge. It stands. Collica goes down! And just about everyone not dressed in orange gives a thunderous round of applause.

FULL RESULTS
149 Zain Retherford (Penn St.) TF Jordan Laster (Princeton), 16-0 5:43
149 Alex Kocer (South Dakota St.) DEC Justin Oliver (Central Mich.), 5-4
149 Brandon Sorensen (Iowa) DEC Andrew Crone (Wisconsin), 6-2
149 Micah Jordan (Ohio St.) MD Alfred Bannister (Maryland), 10-2
149 Lavion Mayes (Missouri) DEC Steve Bleise (Northern Ill.), 2-1 TB2
149 Solomon Chishko (Virginia Tech) F Joey Delgado (Oregon St.), 2:53
149 Max Thomsen (Uni) F Laike Gardner (Lehigh), 6:59
149 Kenny Theobald (Rutgers) DEC Anthony Collica (Oklahoma St.), 9-3 SV

157

Jason Nolf  now and he's in catch and release mode. Bucknell's Victor Lopez was giving Nolf all he could handle but Nolf breaks the match wide open now. Nolf gets the tech when time expires.

Joseph Smith avoids the OK State upset bug, and beats Penn's May Bethea 6-3.

Rider's BJ Clagon wins for the third time today! The unseeded wrestlers punches his ticket to the quarterfinals with a win over AZ State's no. 9 Josh Shields.

Joey Lavallee gives the home town crowd something to cheer about. He pins VTech's Sal Mastriani in front of a very large Missouri contingent.

No. 7 Dylan Palacio continues his senior season in the championship bracket and Iowa's no. 2 Kemerer also advance, as 157 finishes up the round of 16 without any more surprises.

FULL RESULTS
157 Jason Nolf (Penn St.) TF Victor Lopez (Bucknell), 24-9 5:00
157 Bryant Clagon (Rider) DEC Joshua Shields (Arizona St.), 6-5
157 Joseph Smith (Oklahoma St.) DEC May Bethea (Penn), 6-3
157 Tyler Berger (Nebraska) DEC Kyle Langenderfer (Illinois), 11-7
157 Joey Lavallee (Missouri) DEC Sal Mastriani (Virginia Tech), 3-1 SV
157 Paul Fox (Stanford) DEC Russell Parsons (Army West Point), 7-5
157 Dylan Palacio (Cornell) DEC Colin Heffernan (Central Mich.), 9-5
157 Michael Kemerer (Iowa) TF Chase Delande (Edinboro)

165

Opposite sides of the stadium are now exploding. After Lavallee's pin, the OK State fans erupt for Chandler Rogers' pin of Big 12 rival Dylan Cottrell of WVU.

UPSET ALERT! Unseeded Paul Fox of Stanford knocks of no. 11 Russell Parsons of Army and punches his ticket to the quarterfinal round.

Top seeded IMar has another difficult match, winning by a mere regular decision over Minnesota's tough Nick Wanzek.

No. 5 Chad Walsh joins his teammate, Clagon, in the quarters, with a win over Edinboro's Matthews.

AZ State freshman Anthony Valencia stops ACC champ Te'Shan Campbell of Pitt, 9-2.

165 continues following the script. Only the no. 9 seed advances with a very minor upset.

FULL RESULTS
165 Isaiah Martinez (Illinois) DEC Nicholas Wanzek (Minnesota), 8-5
165 Chandler Rogers (Oklahoma St.) F Dylan Cottrell (West Virginia), 00:57
165 Chad Walsh (Rider) F Austin Matthews (Edinboro), 00:43
165 Isaac Jordan (Wisconsin) DEC Brandon Womack (Cornell), 5-1
165 Vincenzo Joseph (Penn St.) MD Branson Ashworth (Wyoming), 12-4
165 Daniel Lewis (Missouri) DEC Bryce Steiert (Uni), 6-0
165 Anthony Valencia (Arizona St.) DEC Te`shan Campbell (Pittsburgh), 9-2
165 Logan Massa (Michigan) TF Drew Hughes (Michigan St.), 25-10 4:47

174

We're already up at 174 as my updates begin to fall behind the pace of the action. PSU's Mark Hall matches Zain Retherford's ridiculous 16-0 tech fall, as he advances past Navy's Jadean Bernstein.

Myles Amine, freshman for Michigan, upends UNC's All-American Ethan Ramos 6-4, in a tight 8/9 battle.

In a clash of funk stylers, Zach Epperly of VA Tech gets the better of Taylor Lujan of UNI, 6-2.

Iowa's Alex Meyer and Leigh's Ryan Preisch are in a back and forth battle. No. 11 Meyer takes no. 6 Preisch at the buzzer. The Hawkeye fans are on their feet!

Illinois' Zac Brunson ends Jake Residori's Cinderella run 6-2. Residori will have to continue in the consolation bracket.

BoJo and Realbuto both win without much trouble, but the nos. 9, 10 & 11 all advance to the quarters in 174's bracket.

FULL RESULTS
174 Zahid Valencia (Arizona St.) MD Christian Brucki (Central Mich.), 12-3
174 Myles Amine (Michigan) DEC Ethan Ramos (North Carolina), 6-4
174 Mark Hall (Penn St.) TF Jadaen Bernstein (Navy), 16-0 2:20
174 Zach Epperly (Virginia Tech) DEC Taylor Lujan (Uni), 5-2
174 Bo Jordan (Ohio St.) DEC Lelund Weatherspoon (Iowa St.), 10-4
174 Alex Meyer (Iowa) DEC Ryan Preisch (Lehigh), 7-5
174 Zach Brunson (Illinois) DEC Jake Residori (Siue), 6-2
174 Brian Realbuto (Cornell) TF Trace Engelkes (Northern Ill.), 16-0 3:00

184

UPSET ALERT! 184 starts off with a national champ, Myles Martin of Ohio State, losing to Illinois' Emery Parker. Devastating blow to Ohio State's team championship aspirations.

ANOTHER UPSET! No. 12 Drew Foster of UNI takes out no. 5 Zach Zavatsky in a close one, 4-3. One of VT's big 4 upper weights heads to the wrestlebacks early.

Right after Meyer upsets Preisch, Sammy Brooks pins Edinboro's Dakota Geer. The Iowa fans are nearly delirious right now.

Bo Nickal with a pin! It's getting very difficult to keep up with the action but the PSU crowd provide a helpful reminder to look up and see what just happened.

Gabe Dean looks rather mortal in his 11-3 major decision victory over CMU's Ellingwood.

Senior Jack Dechow of ODU makes it back to the quarters with a sudden victory win over Indiana's Nate Jackson, no. 8 holding seed over no. 9.

Dudley wins so the only seeds below no. 8 to make the quarters are Parker and Foster at 11 and 12 respectively. 

184 Gabriel Dean (Cornell) MD Jordan Ellingwood (Central Mich.), 11-3
184 Jack Dechow (Old Dominion) DEC Nathan Jackson (Indiana), 7-5 SV
184 Drew Foster (Uni) DEC Zachary Zavatsky (Virginia Tech), 4-3
184 Nolan Boyd (Oklahoma St.) DEC Bryce Carr (Chattanooga), 3-2 TB2
184 Samuel Brooks (Iowa) F Dakota Geer (Edinboro), 4:21
184 Emory Parker (Illinois) DEC Myles Martin (Ohio St.), 14-9
184 Timothy Dudley (Nebraska) DEC Michael Macchiavello (North Carolina St.), 6-1
184 Bo Nickal (Penn St.) F Steven Schneider (Binghamton), 5:43

197

J'Den Cox and Kollin Moore both going to work with big leads in their respective matches. Cox wins 12-3 over Navy's Cervantes. Moore gets it done 16-4, majoring Oregon State's Griego.

Matt McClutcheon of Penn State with another big victory for the Lions and their team championship goals. He beats no. 12 Frank Mattiace of Penn (just Penn).

VTech's Jared Haught stays hot (sorry, can't help myself), and cashes out Iowa's Cash Wilcke 4-1 (yeah that second one was even worse, sorry).

OK States no. 6 Preston Weigel holds seed over no. 11 Shawn Scott of NIU. There's almost no margin of error left for the Cowboys, even this early in the tournament, for their team championship aspirations.

All the top eight seeds advance to the quarters here, except no. 10 Beazley of Old Dominion. 

197 J`den Cox (Missouri) MD Steban Cervantes (Navy), 12-3
197 Ryan Wolfe (Rider) DEC Daniel Chaid (North Carolina), 11-5
197 Matt Mccutcheon (Penn St.) DEC Frank Mattiace (Penn), 6-3
197 Jared Haught (Virginia Tech) DEC Cash Wilcke (Iowa), 4-1
197 Kollin Moore (Ohio St.) MD Corey Griego (Oregon St.), 16-4
197 Preston Weigel (Oklahoma St.) DEC Shawn Scott (Northern Ill.), 3-2
197 Kevin Beazley (Old Dominion) F Aaron Studebaker (Nebraska), 6:18
197 Brett Pfarr (Minnesota) DEC Brad Johnson (Oklahoma), 6-1

285

We're already up to the heavyweights, where things usually slow down, unless you are Kyle Snyder, who has about 50 points in the second period. Snyder wins. I missed his score but I believe it was around a 2 or 300 point margin.

Ty Walz scores another victory for the Hokies, sending 3 of their 4 upper weights unto the quarters.

App State's Dejournette and Minnesota's Michael Kroells are stopped in the tie breaker phase as the refs review a takedown call. This is a tight battle between the nos. 8 and 9 seed. Kroells wins with a late takedown of Dejournette, who uses a couple refs and table scorers to break his fall. Just a reminder to everyone on the floor out there to pay attention and stay on your toes while the heavies are out there.

UPSET ALERT! In a crushing blow to the OK State faithful, no. 6 Austin Schafer is blanked, 8-0, by unseeded Conan Jennings of Northwestern. Big win for the Wildcats.

Tanner Hall gets a pin in overtime over Stanford's Nate Butler, in the antepenultimate heavyweight bout.

Wisconsins' no. 2, Conor Medbery wins 5-0 in the last match of the championship round on the day. Consolation action is underway, which we will get to soon, after a quick break to update the scores and try and catch the really egregious typos.

285 Kyle Snyder (Ohio St.) TF Garrett Ryan (Columbia), 22-7 6:17
285 Michael Kroells (Minnesota) DEC Denzel Dejournette (Appalachian St.), 5-3
285 Nick Nevills (Penn St.) DEC William Miller (Edinboro), 6-2
285 Jacob Kasper (Duke) DEC Mike Kosoy (North Carolina St.), 2-0
285 Ty Walz (Virginia Tech) DEC Thomas Haines (Lock Haven), 9-5
285 Conan Jennings (Northwestern) MD Austin Schafer (Oklahoma St.), 8-0
285 Tanner Hall (Arizona St.) DEC Nathan Butler (Stanford), 3-1 SV
285 Connor Medbery (Wisconsin) DEC Ryan Solomon (Pittsburgh), 5-0

ATTENDENCE ALERT: another crowd of 18,157 just announced for session 2. That brings today's two session total to 36,314. From a look around the Scottrade Center, it appears a couple few of those paid ticket holders are already at dinner. 

CONSOLATION ROUND 1

I'll just skip around and try and catch up on some noteworthy matches.

125: 2X All-American Dylan Peters of UNI stays alive with a gritty 8-7 win over Sean Nickell of CSU-Bakersfield.

125: Michigan's 2X All-American, Conor Youtsey, however, does not advance, as he is beaten by Stanford's talented Gabe Townsell, which officially ends Youtsey's career, for the second time. 

133: As part of our 2X All-American theme, Iowa State senior Earl Hall must also call it a collegiate career, as he was beaten by another Stanford wrestler, Conner Schram, who also has no respect for his elders.

133: Cornell senior Mark Grey lives to fight another day, advancing pas Jeffrey Ott of Harvard 10-2. He'll face familiar EIWA opponent, Scotty Parker of Lehigh in the next round. 

141: Big Ten rivals Topher Carton of Iowa and Cole Martin of Wisconsin duked it out, with Carton advancing with a 16-4 major decision. He'll see another B1G foe, Luke Pletcher of Ohio State, next.

141: Lock Haven's Ronnie Perry survives CSUB's Rohlfing, but he'll have the monstrous Jared Prince of Navy in the next round.

149: No. 8 Lugo of Edinboro advances, but no. 12 Speno's season is done. The Wolfpacker fell to App State's Matt "Zov" Zovistoski. 

149: George Mason's Sahid Kargo beat Michael Hayes of Old Dominion, in a battle of schools from opposite sides of the state of Virginia. Kargbo will see Maryland's Bannister, in a match between schools on opposite sides of the Potomac River. 

157: No. 8 Jake Short of Minnesota and no. 13 John Van Brill of Rutgers both shake off their first round upsets and advance to Friday's morning session. Short took out Duke's Jake Faust, 13-4, and JVB squeaked by Ryan Mosley of Gardner-Webb, 1-0. 

157: Four time NCAA qualifier, Aaron Walker of the Citadel, will not become an All-American in his final attempt. He loses to Casey Sparkman, of the appropriately named Golden Flashes of Kent State. 

165: Iowa fans have another reason to stand up and cheer, as Joey Gunther takes out CSUB's Lorenzo De La Riva in a tight 3-1 victory. LDLR's season comes to an abrupt end. 

A coach from Penn has been called to the head table. I'll need help in verifying this but it seems that more coaches than usual are being called to the head table and getting warnings or team point deductions. At least for the first day anyway. Tempers are flaring in the coach's corners this year!

174: Jonathan Schleifer for Lifer of Princeton pins Devin Skatzka of Indiana. Casey Clark Kent of Penn beats Kocer the Younger of SD State.

174: OK State's Kyle Crutchmer majors Purdue's Jacob Morrisey. If Crutchmer can keep bonusing folks all the way to a third place finish, he'll more than make up for his first round loss. Which may, or may not, all be part of coach John Smith's master plan. 

184: Nick "The Corba" Corba picks up a pin over Rider's Michale Fagg-Daves. The CSU Vikings will have a wrestler tomorrow!

Minnesota is deducted a team point for head gear throwing. Horseplay leads to injuries my dudes. You could have a lawsuit on your hands if you're not careful. 

197: Princeton's Brett Harner gets back on the All-American winning way, with a pin over Jake Tindle of SIUE. Harner will wrestle tomorrow. 

197: Nate Rotert of SD State also gets back on track. He wins 4-1 over Jacob Holschlag of UNI. 

We've got nothing but heavyweight matches left. Just once I'd like to see a tournament go in reverse weight order. Why not do the heavyweights first and 125 last? What could it hurt? Variety is the spice of life and so forth. 

285: Lehigh's Doug Vollaro is in a 1-1 tie match against Cory Daniel of UNC. I believe 1-1 matches that go into OT are in Vollaro's contract somewhere. And I spoke too soon, Vollaro gets a late take down and earns a victory in regulation! Vollaro will advance to the next round.

285: Utah Valley's Dustin Dennison is leading Drexel's Joseph Goodhart 4-2, to start the final period of Thursday's action. Dennison will put it away, 6-3. Well done Dustin Dennison. 

Don't forget to check tomorrow. We'll have more NCAA coverage all day. Session 3 starts at 10:00 am Central Time. Thanks for following along and see you tomorrow!