We're moving on to the first night session of the 2019 NCAA Championships. Keep refreshing this page for instant updates from inside the PPG Paints Arena as we narrow the championship field down to 16 per weight and watch ninety wrestlers' season, and in some cases, college careers, come to an end. You can read about the early afternoon session here.

Crowd streaming in at a quicker pace for this session than the last. Hopefully, we are good and packed in here like sardines for the second round. 

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— Professional Blogger (@SpeyWrestle) March 21, 2019

I'll save my blogging strength for the championship rounds, but I'll still plop in results from the consi round. That way I can blog extra for the championship round.

Quick assessment of the fan sections: PSU unsurprisingly has the biggest group, though they are dispersed, and it is more fun when a fan base is tightly concentrated (imo). Oklahoma State and Lehigh have their lower bowl slivers next to each other and are showing out quite well. Ohio State is one section over from Lehigh and is also impressively rowdy. On the other side of the bowl, Cornerll, Virginia Tech and Rutgers all have solid, color-coded blocks. 

Alex Van Halen's galloping drum beat from Hot for Teacher kicks things off. Or at least, kicks off an NCAA promo vid. After that probably we'll get the session's first whistle. 

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Vito Arujau vs Rayvon Foley is the first championship bout to get underway. Slick knee tap from Arujau gives him the first takedown. It's all Vito after one period, as he leads 6-1. Vito makes it official, 12-2.

Drew Mattin is tasked with slowing down Seabass. Meanwhile, Spencer Lee has the long and rangy Sean Fausz to contend with. After one period, Rivera leads 2-0, Lee leads 2-1. Bresser leads Hildebrandt 3-1 after a one period. Nearfall for Spencer gives him a 9-1 lead and that should ice it. Lee will take it by a 10-1 major decision. Mattin continues to make Rivera work for it, keeping it to a 3 point match in the third. 

Jack Mueller is pouring it on McGee 9-3. Sean Russell is taking control of his match with Piotrowski, leading 5-0 in the second.

Nick Piccininni takes the mat against Elijah Oliver, looking for a win and bonus to keep the Cowboys in trophy contention. Pich in control, leading 6-2 in the second. 

Results

Sebastian Rivera (Northwestern) 27-1 won by decision over Drew Mattin (Michigan) 19-8 (Dec 4-0)

Vitali Arujau (Cornell) 28-2 won by major decision over RayVon Foley (Michigan State) 32-5 (MD 12-2)

Jack Mueller (Virginia) 19-0 won by major decision over Michael McGee (Old Dominion) 29-5 (MD 13-3)

Ronnie Bresser (Oregon State) 25-1 won by decision over Drew Hildebrandt (Central Michigan) 20-9 (Dec 5-3)

Spencer Lee (Iowa) 20-3 won by major decision over Sean Fausz (NC State) 12-3 (MD 10-1)

Sean Russell (Minnesota) 28-4 won by major decision over Travis Piotrowski (Illinois) 21-11 (MD 10-1)

Pat Glory (Princeton) 28-4 won by major decision over Brent Fleetwood (North Dakota State) 25-5 (MD 10-0)

Nicholas Piccininni (Oklahoma State) 32-0 won by major decision over Elijah Oliver (Indiana) 29-17 (MD 13-2)

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So many killer R16 matchups in this weight. Tariq Wilson and Ethan Lizak finished 3rd and 4th last year, they are meeting in round two. Lizak got the first takedown and slaps on his backpack ride. Nick Suriano has Korbin Myers to deal with. It's 5-2 in favor of Suriano but Myers needs injury time. Lizak trying to hold on to a 5-4 lead late in the third. Suriano going to coast to a 7-2 lead once this riding time is tacked on, assuming no other scores. Lizak Tariq ends in a scramble and a review, but no score, and Lizak takes out last year's 3rd place finisher at 133. 

Luke Pletcher looks mean against Montorie Bridges, jumping out to a 4-1 lead. Austin Gomez vs Micky Phillippi gets underway, which according to twitter is the most anticipated match of this round. Phillippi hangs on for a 1-0 win, Gomez can't finish a single leg late in the third. 

Daton Fix leads Matt Schmitt 2-0. Fix wins 8-3 as there is too much fire on the eight mats to keep up with. Apologies for anything I miss, my fingers are flying across the keyboard as fast as I can make them. 

Now it's Austin DeSanto and Roman Bravo-Young. RBY is wrestling with one arm behind his back keeping that tricep away from DeSanto. DeSanto leads 2-1 late in the first. RBY escapes after DeSanto racks up 50 seconds of RT, its 2-2. DeSanto escapes in the third to make it 3-2, but RBY immediately in on a shot. DeSanto stands and RBY runs him right into the scorers table. The table gets rocked, DeSanto runs directly back to the inner circle, and RBY stays down. Cael comes out to attend to him. Replay shows it was all RBY running DeSanto into the table. No penalty. After injury time DeSanto picks neutral. That infuriates Cael Sanderson. Tom Brands runs out as the refs tell both sides to go to their corners. They will review some more. I see now why Sanderson is mad, they took RBY's takedown off the board and it's 3-2 again. Not sure what's going on now to be honest. And they points stay off! We go back to neutral, less than a minute to go, DeSanto leading 3-2. DeSanto throws in a standing merkle and pulls RBY to his back. He gets the takedown and backpoints and he will take out RBY again and advance. Controversial bout and DeSanto is showered with boos from the Penn State fans.

Results

Daton Fix (Oklahoma State) 32-1 won by decision over Matthew Schmitt (West Virginia) 18-7 (Dec 9-3)

John Erneste (Missouri) 20-4 won by decision over DJ Fehlman (Lock Haven) 35-7 (Dec 4-0)

Luke Pletcher (Ohio State) 25-5 won by decision over Montorie Bridges (Wyoming) 30-9 (Dec 5-3)

Micky Phillippi (Pittsburgh) 21-2 won by decision over Austin Gomez (Iowa State) 22-6 (Dec 1-0)

Nick Suriano (Rutgers) 26-3 won by decision over Korbin Myers (Virginia Tech) 19-9 (Dec 7-2)

Ethan Lizak (Minnesota) 30-5 won by decision over Tariq Wilson (NC State) 15-4 (Dec 5-4)

Austin DeSanto (Iowa) 20-4 won by decision over Roman Bravo-Young (Penn State) 22-5 (Dec 7-2)

Stevan Micic (Michigan) 16-0 won by major decision over Ben Thornton (Purdue) 22-10 (MD 11-2)

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While RBY DeSanto is causing pandemonium, Nick Lee pins All-American Sa'Derrian Perry of ODU. 

Big upset as Kyle Shoop of Lock Haven beats Josh Alber of UNI 19-10. 

133 just concluded and it was one of the most amazing rounds of NCAA wrestling I can remember. The quarterfinals are loaded up with volcanic fire. 

Max Murin got revenge again on Mike Carr, just like Big Tens, and knocks the higher seeded Carr into the consis. 

Joey McKenna majors Kaid Brock right in front of the Ohio State section and gives them the number 1 sign as they do the same back. 

Mitch McKee with a gutty 5-3 win over a game Sam Turner. 

Results 

Yianni Diakomihalis (Cornell) 26-0 won by decision over Chad Red (Nebraska) 19-12 (Dec 7-3)

Dom Demas (Oklahoma) 31-7 won by decision over Kanen Storr (Michigan) 25-7 (Dec 3-1)

Jaydin Eierman (Missouri) 25-3 won by decision over Cameron Kelly (Ohio) 20-4 (Dec 10-8)

Kyle Shoop (Lock Haven) 33-6 won by major decision over Josh Alber (Northern Iowa) 32-6 (MD 19-10)

Nick Lee (Penn State) 29-2 won by fall over Sa`Derian Perry (Old Dominion) 24-9 (Fall 3:42)

Max Murin (Iowa) 17-8 won by decision over Michael Carr (Illinois) 13-6 (Dec 4-3)

Mitch McKee (Minnesota) 22-5 won by decision over Sam Turner (Wyoming) 31-13 (Dec 7-4)

Joey McKenna (Ohio State) 22-2 won by major decision over Kaid Brock (Oklahoma State) 20-8 (MD 14-1)

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Top seed Anthony Ashnault gets a quick takedown on Davion Jeffries. Ashnault was looking for a pinfall the entire match but will have to settle for a 7-1 regular decision. 

Wild scramblefest from Degen and Oliver, as expected Degen scrapes by 10-8. Kolodzik leads Brady Berge 5-1 going into the third. 

Pat Lugo and Ryan Blees are going to sudden victory. Now to tiebreakers. Sudden victory two, Blees shoots and gets behind Lugo, but Lugo squirms free and takes Blees down for the victory. 

Micah Jordan the #2 seed runs the score up to 6-2 on Max Thomsen. Make that 13-2, as Young pours it on.

Results

Anthony Ashnault (Rutgers) 29-0 won by decision over Davion Jeffries (Oklahoma) 24-11 (Dec 7-1)

Jarrett Degen (Iowa State) 27-6 won by decision over Justin Oliver (NC State) 19-6 (Dec 11-8)

Matthew Kolodzik (Princeton) 23-3 won by decision over Brady Berge (Penn State) 19-4 (Dec 8-5)

Brock Mauller (Missouri) 31-2 won by decision over Thomas Thorn (Minnesota) 19-11 (Dec 5-1)

Mitch Finesilver (Duke) 30-3 won by major decision over Cole Martin (Wisconsin) 20-12 (MD 9-1)

Austin O`Connor (North Carolina) 31-5 won by decision over Joshua Heil (Campbell) 24-7 (Dec 4-1)

Pat Lugo (Iowa) 22-7 won in sudden victory - 2 over Ryan Blees (Virginia Tech) 17-15 (SV-2 4-2)

Micah Jordan (Ohio State) 27-2 won by major decision over Max Thomsen (Northern Iowa) 22-9 (MD 17-4)

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Jason Nolf toes the line against the last man in the NCAA to beat him (due to an injury default, but still), John Van Brill. Nolf having no trouble with JVB, winning 11-3 in the second. JVB avoids the pin but gets teched. 

Kaleb Young taking it to Ke-Shawn Hayes winning 6-0. Young spent some time at 174 in his career, while Hayes wrestled a season at 141. They meet in the middle at 157.

The young Josh Humphreys has a 5-2 leads Christian Pagdilao 5-2 going into the third period. Pagdilao storms back, picking up clutch nearfall to take it 11-7. Pagdilao is so pumped his chucks his headgear into the scorers table and costs the Sun Devils a team point. 

Alec Pantaleo is beating Luke Weiland 5-2. 

Tyler Berger and Eric Bone are in a scramble with Berger leading 3-0. Berger catches Barone out of position and there's the fall. 

Results

Jason Nolf (Penn State) 28-0 won by tech fall over John Van Brill (Rutgers) 20-15 (TF-1.5 6:47 (19-4))

Christian Pagdilao (Arizona State) 24-8 won by decision over Josh Humphreys (Lehigh) 20-7 (Dec 11-7)

Hayden Hidlay (NC State) 22-2 won by tech fall over Justin Thomas (Oklahoma) 22-10 (TF-1.5 5:20 (16-1))

Alec Pantaleo (Michigan) 20-7 won by decision over Luke Weiland (Army West Point) 25-11 (Dec 5-3)

Ryan Deakin (Northwestern) 31-4 won by major decision over Griffin Parriott (Purdue) 16-12 (MD 9-0)

Kaleb Young (Iowa) 22-5 won by major decision over Ke-Shawn Hayes (Ohio State) 21-10 (MD 14-2)

Larry Early (Old Dominion) 24-5 won by decision over Steve Bleise (Minnesota) 19-8 (Dec 3-2)

Tyler Berger (Nebraska) 26-3 won by fall over Eric Barone (Illinois) 17-15 (Fall 6:07)

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Mekhi Lewis and Cael McCormick start their match in the only round 2 bout between guys who both pinned their first round opponents. Lewis gets the first takedown. No pins this time, Lews wins 3-1.

Fresh off his war with Joe Smith, Alex Marinelli has Thomas Bullard of NC State. The Bull leads 8-3.

Evan Wick leads Andrew Fogarty 6-1 going into the third. And Cenzo has Connor Flynn and leads 2-0 in the first. We'll continue around the horn, and check in on Chance Marsteller, who beats Te'Shan Campbell 4-2. In a classic Pac-12 EWL matchup, Josh Shields leads Jesse Dellavecchia 3-2 in the second. Logan Massa and Bryce Steiert just got underway. 

Steiert and Massa are in a dogfight. Steiert just got a reversal to take the 2-1 lead in the third. And Steiert completes the upset by riding out the period. Panther head coach Doug Schwab is elated. You can see the emotion from way up here in the crows nest. 

Isaiah White takes a 5-1 lead over Branson Ashworth into the third period. 

Results

Alex Marinelli (Iowa) 25-0 won by major decision over Thomas Bullard (NC State) 21-9 (MD 12-4)

Mekhi Lewis (Virginia Tech) 25-2 won by decision over Cael McCormick (Army West Point) 19-9 (Dec 4-1)

Chance Marsteller (Lock Haven) 24-2 won by decision over Te`shan Campbell (Ohio State) 21-8 (Dec 4-2)

Evan Wick (Wisconsin) 30-4 won by decision over Andrew Fogarty (North Dakota State) 21-5 (Dec 9-2)

Joshua Shields (Arizona State) 29-3 won by major decision over Jesse Dellavecchia (Rider) 25-6 (MD 10-2)

Bryce Steiert (Northern Iowa) 25-7 won by decision over Logan Massa (Michigan) 21-6 (Dec 2-1)

Isaiah White (Nebraska) 22-7 won by decision over Branson Ashworth (Wyoming) 34-6 (Dec 5-4)

Vincenzo Joseph (Penn State) 25-1 won by decision over Connor Flynn (Missouri) 21-8 (Dec 8-4)

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All-American Jordan Kutler leads Matt Finesilver 2-0. Kutler wins and is in the quarterfinals.

Taylor Lujan just showed why he is one of the most dangerous men in college to get in a scramble with. Down 2-0, UNI's Lujan scrambles his way to a fall over Devin Skatzka of Minnesota.

National champ Zahid Valencia leads Kimball Bastian of Utah Valley 4-2, as the weight class' other national champ in the bracket, Mark Hall, begins his match with Brandon Womack. Valencia wins by major. Hall working for the major. It's 7-3 and he will get riding time. Hall settles for a regular decision but he and the Nittany Lion faithful will take the advancement above all else. 

Jacobe Smith in a big match for the Cowboys against the extremely tough Mikey Labriola. Both of these guys are dudes you want on your side in a dark alley. Labriola catches Jacobe in a scramble in short time in the second. Labs puts Smith in neutral danger and then gets nearfall. Time runs out in the second period and they'll review the back points. Scoreboard says 5-3 Labriola now. Nearfall stands, Jacobe cuts him to start the third and has a 6-3 lead. Labs gets the next takedown though and it's 8-3. That's gonna make it tough for Jacobe. Labs will take it 8-4 in a crushing blow for Cowboy team points.

Upset alert! Army's Ben Harvey beats David McFadden in a second round stunner! 

Results

Mark Hall (Penn State) 28-0 won by decision over Brandon Womack (Cornell) 21-9 (Dec 8-3)

Taylor Lujan (Northern Iowa) 26-5 won by fall over Devin Skatzka (Minnesota) 27-9 (Fall 3:22)

Jordan Kutler (Lehigh) 23-4 won by decision over Matt Finesilver (Duke) 25-8 (Dec 6-2)

Myles Amine (Michigan) 19-3 won by major decision over Spencer Carey (Navy) 25-15 (MD 12-3)

Zahid Valencia (Arizona State) 28-2 won by major decision over Kimball Bastian (Utah Valley) 19-11 (MD 16-5)

Ben Harvey (Army West Point) 31-9 won in sudden victory - 1 over David McFadden (Virginia Tech) 19-3 (SV-1 5-3)

Mikey Labriola (Nebraska) 28-6 won by decision over Jacobe Smith (Oklahoma State) 28-4 (Dec 8-4)

Daniel Lewis (Missouri) 26-1 won by fall over Ryan Christensen (Wisconsin) 18-9 (Fall 2:42)

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Myles Martin quietly dismantling Corey Hazel. It's 6-2 MyMar after the first. Martin wins, I did not see the score but it was a lot to a little. 

Upset alert! Chip Ness gets neutral danger and back points against Shakur Rasheed in the third. He dances and gets hit for stalling as time runs out, but it's moot. Ness slays the #2 seed 8-6 and will wrestle in the quarterfinals. He is one win away from being an All-American for the second time. 

Whose city is it? Nino Bonaccorsi's city! Pitt knocks off the #4 seed Emery Parker and advances to the quarterfinals!

Ryan Preisch takes out Taylor Venz in a close #8 over #9 seed match. And Cornell's Max Dean beat Iowa's Cash Wilcke as the big time results start rolling in at a torrential pace. 

#10 seed Samuel Coldspray Colbray takes out Dakota Geer to set up a match with #15 seed Chip Ness in the quarters.

Results

Myles Martin (Ohio State) 22-0 won by major decision over Corey Hazel (Lock Haven) 16-4 (MD 16-5)

Ryan Preisch (Lehigh) 22-3 won by decision over Taylor Venz (Nebraska) 22-8 (Dec 4-3)

Maxwell Dean (Cornell) 23-5 won in sudden victory - 1 over Cash Wilcke (Iowa) 22-7 (SV-1 6-4)

Nino Bonaccorsi (Pittsburgh) 21-6 won by decision over Emery Parker (Illinois) 18-4 (Dec 9-7)

Zachary Zavatsky (Virginia Tech) 26-3 won by decision over Cameron Caffey (Michigan State) 30-8 (Dec 9-7)

Drew Foster (Northern Iowa) 25-5 won by decision over Lou Deprez (Binghamton) 31-6 (Dec 7-1)

Samuel Colbray (Iowa State) 28-6 won by decision over Dakota Geer (Oklahoma State) 26-6 (Dec 7-4)

Chip Ness (North Carolina) 21-12 won by decision over Shakur Rasheed (Penn State) 19-1 (Dec 8-5)

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Bo Nickal starts his fourth and final NCAA second round match. He hits a big feet-to-back hip toss on Josh Hokit and has an 8-1 lead in the first. And there's the fall!

Senior Preston Weigel gets an important win for the Cowboys. 

ACC rivals Tom Sleigh and Jay Aiello are in a close bout on mat 5. Sleigh leads 5-2 going into the third. 

#11 seed Christain Brunner of Purdue beat #6 Willie Miklus in a minor upset, sending three-time All-American Miklus to the consolation round earlier than expected. 

Kollin Moore in control of his match over Jake Woodley.

Tom Lane of Cal Poly in a 2-2 match with Iowa's Jacob Warner late in the third. Lane picked up his first stall warning but Lane completes the rideout to force sudden victory. Lane gets the takedown in sudden victory and the upset train keeps rolling for the Mustang's sole wrestler. 

Results

Bo Nickal (Penn State) 27-0 won by fall over Josh Hokit (Fresno State) 22-7 (Fall 2:28)

Nathan Traxler (Stanford) 30-5 won by decision over Jake Jakobsen (Lehigh) 11-8 (Dec 4-1)

Thomas Lane (Cal Poly) 22-11 won in sudden victory - 1 over Jacob Warner (Iowa) 18-5 (SV-1 4-2)

Patrick Brucki (Princeton) 31-1 won by decision over Malik McDonald (NC State) 19-10 (Dec 3-2)

Preston Weigel (Oklahoma State) 13-0 won by decision over Eric Schultz (Nebraska) 22-12 (Dec 7-2)

Christian Brunner (Purdue) 25-9 won by decision over William Miklus (Iowa State) 23-4 (Dec 6-2)

Tom Sleigh (Virginia Tech) 23-6 won by decision over Jay Aiello (Virginia) 24-7 (Dec 9-8)

Kollin Moore (Ohio State) 21-2 won by major decision over Jake Woodley (Oklahoma) 22-9 (MD 14-4)

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Meech Thomas leads Matt Stencel 6-3 in the second. Stencel storms back to take a 9-7 lead and it looks like Thomas is taking injury time. And Stencel ends up with a major decision over Meech. 

Gable Steveson doing Gable Steveson things against Brian Andrews. It's 10-3 in the second. 

Sam Stoll and Conan Jennings, two of the largest individuals competing in the tournament, are locked in a tactical 1-0 match in the third, Stoll with the slim lead. And that's how it ends, #28 seed Sam Stoll is in the quarterfinals.

Amar Dehsi looking for bonus against Thomas Haines. He's up 12-1 and had Haines on his back a couple of times. 

Chase Singletary made Derek White work for it, losing 5-2 to the powerful top seeded Cowboy. 

Anthony Cassar with a 7-2 advantages over Orndorff late in the third. Orndorff goes upper body but Cassar shrugs it off and secures the major with a counter takedown. 

Big Ten rivals Trent Hillger, freshman from Wisconsin, is taking on Youssif Hemida, a senior from Maryland. Hillger had the better seed, a #7 vs #10, but Hemida won the third place bout at Big Tens. At NCAAs, it will be Hillger's revenge, as Thor takes out Moose 2-0. 

Jordan Wood and Zach Elam is one of the last heavyweight bouts to get underway. Wood holds the smallest of leads, 1-0 in the second, Elam gets choice in the third period. Makes that a 2-0 lead as Elam is called for stalling, much to the approval of the nearby Lehigh Mountain Hawk section (though most of the fans were probably known as Engineers when they were matriculating. Jordan Wood will take it with a Zach Rey-esque 3-0 win after a third period rideout. 

Results

Derek White (Oklahoma State) 30-1 won by decision over Chase Singletary (Ohio State) 20-8 (Dec 5-2)

Matt Stencel (Central Michigan) 29-4 won by major decision over Demetrius Thomas (Pittsburgh) 27-5 (MD 17-9)

Sam Stoll (Iowa) 11-5 won by decision over Conan Jennings (Northwestern) 19-11 (Dec 1-0)

Jordan Wood (Lehigh) 23-3 won by decision over Zach Elam (Missouri) 23-10 (Dec 3-0)

Gable Steveson (Minnesota) 32-1 won by major decision over Brian Andrews (Wyoming) 35-11 (MD 21-8)

Amar Dhesi (Oregon State) 12-1 won by tech fall over Thomas Haines (Lock Haven) 24-5 (TF-1.5 6:21 (18-1))

Trent Hillger (Wisconsin) 24-6 won by decision over Youssif Hemida (Maryland) 17-7 (Dec 2-0)

Anthony Cassar (Penn State) 27-1 won by major decision over Tate Orndorff (Utah Valley) 25-8 (MD 10-2)

Check out full results and brackets on FloArena.

And the second championship round of the 2019 NCAAs comes to an exhaustive conclusion. As expected, the NCAA tournament delivered all the thrills and chills you could handle. At least me personally anyway. Can't speak for everyone but I have reached capacity with regards to both thrills and chills. 

Don't sleep in too late tomorrow. It's a monster quarterfinal round coming up, I mean just look at the matchups. Sorry as always for the typos, see you tomorrow intelligent and savvy wrestling friends!