Looks like we made it! Four months of the regular season, one weekend of conference championships, and here we are, in the T-Mobile Center in Kansas City getting ready to begin the most excellent tournament of the world's oldest and greatest sport. 

Match Notes: Second Round | Quarterfinals | Semis + Bloodround | Medal Round | Finals

We're at the 2024 NCAA D1 Wrestling Championships, and we'll have an account of all the action here for you in real time!

Have some time to kill before the wrestling starts? Might I recommend spending an hour watching the latest FloSports Original: Spencer & Austin? I'm admittedly biased but in my humble opinion it rules. 

Where Are Brackets?

I'm hoping you came here for the live blog but if you just want the brackets I understand as well. We all crave brackets. Here is the link to the D1 NCAA Championship event page on Trackwrestling. Brackets are very easy to find from there. Sweet sweet brackets. 

What About the Schedule?

Sure, right here. 

Thursday, March 21

Session 1 - 12:00 pm (Pigtails & Round of 32)

Session 2 - 7:00 pm (Round of 16 & Consolations)

Friday, March 22

Session 3 - 12:00 pm (Quarterfinals & Consolations)

Session 4 - 8:00 pm (Championship Semifinals & Round of 12)

Saturday, March 23

Session 5 - 11:00 am (Placing Matches)

Session 6 - 7:00 pm (Championship Finals)

Before we begin with the pigtails (or the round of 64 for you sticklers) we need to update the 141-pound bracket. We will do need to do anything, the good people at Trackwrestling and the NCAA already took care of it for us. But sadly, Vince Cornella of Cornell will be unable to compete at NCAAs. That means first alternate Jacob Brya of Northern Illinois will get the #33 seed and everyone moves up a spot until the #24 seed, which was previously occupied by Cornella. 

‼️HE'S IN‼️
Redshirt Freshman Jacob Brya becomes the 129th NIU Huskie to compete at the NCAA National Championship.
Brya enters as the 33rd seed at 141lbs 👏#WorkLikeADog pic.twitter.com/JVGcczd8GJ

— NIU Wrestling (@NIUWrestling) March 20, 2024

Hopefully there are no more scratches but we'll keep our eyes peeled!

We're a half hour from first whistle is unfortunately more bad news. The brackets giveth and the brackets taketh away, and according to the brackets Jacob Brya is not participating in this year's NCAA Championship. So 141 will be a 32-man bracket. Nine pigtails still come in a little less than 30 minutes!

Pigtails

Winners of these #32 vs #33 seed matches still have a long round ahead of them, but it is nice to see programs that typically don't see a lot of wins at the NCAA tournament get a chance to have their arm raised the Big Dance. 

For instance, not only did Long Island University have their first national qualifier in program history, but they also picked up their first win, as Anthony 'Ant Man' D'Alesio beat Tomas Booker of App State 10-8 at 184-pounds. LIU-Brooklyn had a qualifier back in the 1970s and LIU-Post has had a lot of success at the DII level but never had the LIU Sharks (the new athletic department that was created when LIU-B and LIU-P merged their campuses) had a qualifier before. Congrats to the Sharks!

Additionally, the Keydets of VMI picked up a rare NCAA win, when Dyson Dunham defeated Indiana's Cayden Rooks at 133. 

Round of 32

125 Pounds

125 has been absolutely insane this year so we're getting some insane first round matchups on account of all the insane seeds, which are due to all the insane regular season results. 

• Last year's finalist Matt Ramos of Purdue survived a comeback attempt from Brendan McCrone of Ohio State to win via riding time. 
• Lock Haven's Anthony Noto defeated fellow former All-American Brandon Kaylor of Oregon State. 
• UPSET ALERT (although this is 125 so what even is an upset) Harvard's #29 Diego Sotelo got the first surprise of the tournament with a win over Wyoming's #7 Jore Volk. 
• UPSET ALERT (same caveat applies) #21 Stevo Poulin of Northern Colorado beat #12 Noah Surtin of Missouri. 
• Cornell's Brett Ungar needed tiebrakers to get by Rutgers' Dean Peterson. 
• Wisconsin's Eric Barnett gets the first pin of the tournament over SDSU's Tanner Jordan in just 45 seconds. barnett gets NC State's Jakob Camacho's next. 
• Drake Ayala wins and advances, eliciting the biggest cheer of the tourney so far. The Hawkeye faithful always travel well and the NCAAs are no exception. 
• Huge Big Ten rivalry in round 1 as #15 Michael DeAugustino of Michigan has Nebraska's #13 Caleb Smith right off the bat. Two All-American contenders now going into overtime. And with just a couple of seconds left on the clock, Smith gets the takedown to secure the dub! Smith's prize is Lehigh's #2 seed Luke Stanich in round 2. 
• Pat McKee and Richie Figueroa both win to set up a dynamite 8 v 9 seed in the second round. 
• Penn State's top seeded Braeden Davis finally gets to the mat to take on pigtail bout winner Tristan Lujan of Michigan State. Davis wins comfortably 8-1 for the first PSU win of the tournament. 

133 Pounds

• One of the best first round matchups of any weight class is on of the first 133-poound bouts as #5 Dylan Ragusin of Michigan takes on Penn's #19 Michael Colaiocco. Ragusin holds off a hard-charging Colaiocco and wins 9-7. 
• Ohio State's Nic Bouzakis overcomes an early deficit to defeat Big Ten rival Braxton Brown of Maryland. 
• Big Ten champ Dylan Shawver of Rutgers gets on a roll early and wins comfortably 9-0 over Jace Koelzer of Oklahoma. 
• It was the #24 seed over the #9 seed but in the rankings is was closer so no shocker when #17 Julian Chlebove scored a clutch late takedown late in the third to beat #15 Dom Serrano of Northern Colorado, 4-1.
• UPSET ALERT (or is it? ) Bucknell's #28 Kurt Phipps advances with a 5-3 win over Minnesota's #16 Tyler Wells (though Phipps was the #13 seed and Wells the #20).
• UVA's Marlon Yarbrough gets the first two takedowns over Penn State's Aaron Nagao. Still early in the first, through. Another upset brewing at is 12-3 now in the third. And Yarbough wins! UPSET ALERT over Penn State!
• UPSET ALERT (for real this time) #20 (and #21 seed) Ethan Oakley of App State defeats #13 (and #12 seed) Sam Latona of Virginia Tech. 
• Little Rock's true freshman Nasir Bailey gets the second NCAA win in program history with a 10-4 win over Missouri's Kade Moore. 
• Iowa's Brody Teske get's a big 12-4 win over Derrick Cardinal of South Dakota State and the Iowa fans show their appreciation. 
• #2 seed Ryan Crookham of Lehigh outlasts a very tough Maximillian Leete of American to advance 4-3. He will have Teske next. 
• Kair Orine of NCSU has Jacob Van Dee of Nebraska in an excellent round 2 matchup. 
• Defending 133lb NCAA champ and 61kg UWW gold medalist Vito Arujau wins. he'll have Campbell's Dom Zaccone next. 
• Number one seed Daton Fix steps on the resilite after giving his pigtail winning opponent from VMI a required break. Fix gets the tech-fall and 1.5 bouns points for the Cowboys. 

141 Pounds

• Ohio State's #1 seed Jesse Mendez races out to a 15-4 lead after two periods. And it's a 19-4 tech-fall in the 3rd period for Mendez. 
• Real Woods also taking care of business with a 7-0 lead after one period. Woods will win with an 11-0 shut out. 
• Sticking with Big Ten 141lb hammers, Nebraska's Brock Hardy gets a 20-4 tech fall over Pucino of Illinois. 
• Mizzou's Johs Edmond got a sudden victory takedown to defeat Wyatt Henson of Lock Haven in an upset via seed but not by rankings. Edmon has the electric Anthony Echemendia next. 
• Two bruisers have locked horns as Rutgers' Mitch Moore has an early 3-1 lead over Pitt's Cole Matthews. Moore gets by Matthews and advances from a gnarly first round matchup. 
• Navy picks up a nice win as #15 Josh Koderhandt gets a sudden victory TD over #19 CJ Composto of Penn. 
• Arizona State's Jesse Vasquez defeats the dangerous Malyke Hines of Lehigh. 
• North Carolina and Canada's Lachlan McNeil dominate Jordan Hamdan. 
• UPSET ALERT - Minnesota's #22 Vance VomBaur gets one back for his teammate Tyler Wells when defeats #6 Cael Happel of UNI.
• Penn State's Beau Bartlett has Kal Miller of Maryland in a stereotypically low scoring bout. It's 1-1 in the third. Bartlett gets the takedown in the final seconds after a lengthy scramble for a head-fought 4-1 win. 
• #13 Tom Crook and #4 Ryan Jack won for an all-ACC Jack v Crook matchup in the second round (not to be confused with Jack Crook, Tom's brother who wrestles at Harvard and also qualified at this tournament). 

149 Pounds

• #1 seed Ridge Lovett of Nebraska has a quick takedown over Rutgers' Michael Cetta and the pigtails have now all received the necessary wait time. All the top seeds can start the bouts with the rest of their division. Lovett pins in the first period!
• It's Miller Time as Ethen Miller, older brother of Kal Miller, who is currently entangled with Beau Bartlett, has Willie McDougald of Oklahoma. 
• Iowa State's fan-favorite Casey Swiderski gets a 2-1 victory over Army's Matthew Williams to give the Cyclone faithful something to cheer about. 
• The aforementioned Jack Crook has the high-flying Austin Gomez of Michigan (by way of Wisconsin by way of Iowa State). Gomez leads 6-2 in the first. Gomez eventually takes it after a bunch of points go on the board, 18-12.
• Ty Watters of West Virginia completes an impressive 19-4 tech fall over Logan Gioffre of Missouri. 
• Penn State's true frosh phenom, Tyler Kasak, a 141-pounder who was pressed into service at 149 after teammate Shayne Van Ness went down for the season with an injury, has former All-American Jaden Abas of Stanford for a first round opponent. Abas got an escape and takedown in the second to lead 4-1 in the third. Abas plays the edge and gives up a stall point but does enough to win, 4-2. 
• Big rivalry match between Iowa's Caleb Rathken and Oklahoma State's Jordan Williams. It's a great bout that goes back and forth, with the score knotted up 5-5 deep in the third. There's a wild scramble in the final seconds before Williams whips Rathen over in a cradle and secures a takedown and nearfall for the seven point win. Very dramatic, much to the approval of the Cowboy faithful in attendance. 
• Virginia Tech's Caleb Henson has no problems in his tech fall over Alek Martin of SDSU. 
• Multiple-time All-American Kyle Parco survives a determined Finn Solomon of Pitt, 5-4.
• Big Ten rivalry renewed as Dylan D'Emilio defats Wisconsin's Joey Zargo.

157 Pounds

• Levi Hains goes immediately to word on the Buckeyes' Isaac Wilcox. The Nittany Lion has a 6-1 lead in the first minute. And after a totally dominant seven minutes of wrestling, Haines wins by tech-fall, 17-2, with the RT point being the point that gave Levi the tech.
• Rematch of a regular season bout between wrestlers that both grew up in Columbia, Missouri, the Tigers' multiple-time All-American Brock Mauller has Oklahoma State's Teague Travis. Tavis won their dual meet bout at Missouri. And Travis wins the NCAA match as well as Oklahoma State continues their impressive first round. 
• Cornell's true frosh fantastico Meyer Shapiro jumps out to a 9-2 lead after the first period. 
• Virginia Tech's Bryce Andonian trying to rebound from a tough regular season injury. He wrestled well in the ACCs and is trying to keep that going against Penn's tough Lucas Revano. Andonian wins 5-1. 
• Michael Blockhus survives a tough Max Brignola to advance 6-4. The Gopher will have NC State's Ed Scott, who advanced via tech-fall, in the 2nd round. 
• Will Lewan in a 4-3 win over Chase Saldate in a battle of the Big Ten Michigan schools. He'll see familiar foe Peyton Robb of Nebraska next. 
• App State's #22 Tommy Askey has ISU's #8 Cody Chittum in a 9-4 hole after two periods. And it'll be an UPSET ALERT for the Mountaineers as Askey wins by major, 17-6. 
• Iowa's Jared Franek in a slobberknocker with Purdue Joey Blaze. A 1-1 bout goes into sudden victory, then tiebreakers, then Franek wins by criteria with a 4 second advantage of riding time. Big wins for the Hawkeyes who avoid the upset. 
• #13 Cael Swensen of South Dakota State needs overtime but gets it down with a takedown on #16 Vinny Zerban to win in sudden victory. 
• Jacori Teemer gets a 7-3 win over Matty Bianchi of Little Rock to score some advancement points for the Sun Devils. 

165 Pounds

• Defending champ Keegan O'Toole wastes no time getting a first period pin and the 165-pound weight class's first round is under way.
• #4 seed David Carr, who could see KO'T in the semis, he beat Evan Maag of George Mason 14-2. Carr will see Stanford's Hunter Garvin next round. 
• In a bout of MAC-tion (if little action) Peyten Keller of Ohio beats Johnny Lovett of Central Michigan 1-0.  
• West Virginia's All-American Peyton hall with a commanding 17-2 tech-fall to advance. He will see Nebraska's Antrell Taylor next. 
• Dean Hamiti gives up the first takedown to Illinois' Chris Moore but the Badger recovers and gets the fall. 
• Giano Petrucelli of Air Force gets a win via pinfall over his fellow service academy opponent, Gunner Filipowics of Army. Both wrestlers also members of the all-name team. 
• #4 Mitchell Mesenbrink takes the mat just after his teammate Carter Starocci takes the mat. First takedown by Mesenbrink in about 10 seconds. Mesenrbink wins via tech-fall and will wrestle the wiley Brevin Casella of Binghamton next. 
• Cornell's Julian Ramirez holds off ACC champ Nick Hamilton of UVA in an action-packed 5-4 match. 
• Garett Thompson of Ohio with an impressive 12-6 win over Michigan State's dangerous Caleb Fish. 
• UPSET ALERT: Bucknell's #28 Noah Mulvaney came back from a 9-3 first period deficit to beat Navy's #12 Andrew Cerniglia. Second period nearfall plus a reversal and riding time in the third period gave the Bison freshman the 10-9 win. Mulvaney will have #6 seed Michael Caliendo of Iowa next. 

174 Pounds

• Defending three-time champs and #9 seed (on account of the two, 1 second injury defaults at Big Tens) Carter Starocci takes the mat against Minnesota's Andrew Sparks. Starocci was injured in the last dual meet to the season but said he was 100% at the press conference yesterday. Staorcci shoots first but Sparks scrambles and scores the first takedown. Starocci scrambles from bottom and now he's got Sparks on his back. Nearly a pin but still an 8-3 lead for Starocci, who appears determined to not let his right leg be a factor at this tournament. Staorcci will make it a 12-6 official decision after two more periods of wrestling. 
• UPSET ALERT: Getting back for his teammate Cael Happel is UNI's #25 Jared Simma, who defeats #9 Philip Conigliaro of Harvard. 
• Former NCAA champ Mekhi Lewis looks to get back to the top of the podium for the first time since 2019 with a major decision in his first bout over Cael Valencia of Arizona State. 
• A first and third period takedown from Rutgers' Jackson Turley gives him the win over Max Maylor of Wisconsin in a #16 vs #17 seed bout. Turley has Mekhi Lewis next. 
• Cal Poly's senior stud Adam Kemp, who is looking for his first All-American honor, defeated Oklahoma State freshman phenom Brayden Thompson 4-3. 
• UPSET ALERT: #32 Alex Cramer of Central Michigan by way of the cowardly Old Dominion defeats #14 Gaven Sax of North Dakota State. 
• UPSET ALERT Iowa Patrick Kennedy fought valiantly but North Carolina's Tyler Eischens had just enough valiance himself to win 9-7. 
• Army notches a minor upset when Ben Pasiuk defeated MJ Gaitan of Iowa State. Pasiuk nearly had the fall a couple of times in the first period and Gaitan could not overcome the deficit. Pasiuk has #2 seed Vade DeVos of SDSU next. 
• Shane Griffith of Michigan by way of Stanford gets a tech-fall win. He'll see UVA's Justin McCoy in the next round. 
• It will be an all-Ivy bout with Lennox Wolak of Columbia and Nick Incontrera of Penn both advancing. 

184 Pounds

• Parker Keckeisen continuing the tradition of 184lb U at Northern Iowa. Keckeisen defeats D'Aleio of LU 10-0. 
• UPSET ALERT: #25 David Key of Navy has #8 Sam Wolf of Air Force in the battle of future pilots and defenders of freedom. Key gets a key takedown in the third to win 4-1 and advances despite by shoddy wordplay. 
• ISU's Feldkamp does Feldkamp things, with a head, arm and inside trip that takes Princeton Nate Dugan to his back for the fall. 
• Penn State's Bernie Truax has Cam Pine of Clarion on his back in the first and stakes himself to an early 6-0 lead. Truax wins by tech-fall. 
• UPSET ALERT: Wisconsin's #21 Shane Liegel, who started his career in Division III, defeated #8 Bennet Berge of SDSU 9-1. 
• The Columbia Lions' Aaron Ayzerov advances with a win over EIWA rival (at least until next season when the Ivies splinter off and start their own wrestling conference) Jacob Nolan 10-0. Ayzerov will face the #4 seed Trey Munoz of Oregon State in the next round. 
• Virginia Tech's TJ Stewart is keeping his hot streak going with a pinfall in the first round. 
• Jaden Bullock of Michigan and Brian Soldano of Rutgers were in a predictably funky match when Bullock secured a fall. Unfortunatley Soldano appeared to suffer a concussion in the final flurry. Hopefully he will be okay to continue but more importantly, we hope he is just okay physically, period. The medical team wisely takes their time putting Soldano on a stretcher and takes him off the mat. Hoping for the best for Brian and his family. 
• UPSET ALERT: #15 Chris Foca of Cornell was in command of his bout with #29 James Conway of Franklin & Marshall until the third period when Foca got hit for three stall calls and then gave up a last second takedown which gave Conway the 5-4 win. Conway has Oklahoma State's Dustin Plott, who advanced via tech fall. 
• Isaiah Salazar of Minnesota defeats 2-1 thanks to 1:08 of riding time

197 Pounds

• Hodge Trophy contender #1 Aaron Brooks begins his quest for his fourth NCAA title against Evan Bates of Northwestern. Brooks will take it via 19-4 technical fall. 
• Stephen Buchanan of Oklahoma by way of Wyoming gets an 18-1 tech-fall over Ben Smith of Cleveland State. 
• Wyoming's #18 Joseph Noval in a battle with Princeton's #13 Luke Stout. And the Cowboy will secure the minor upset 9-6. 
• Little Rock's Stephen Little joins his teammate Nasir Bailey in the second wound with a 22-3 tech-fall over Cole Urbas of Penn. 
• Michael Beard of Lehigh joins the tech-fall parade with a win over the young Justin Rademacher of Oregon State. 
• Iowa's Zach Glazier and Virginia Tech's Andy Smith go into sudden victory. Smith in on a single leg, he runs the pike and brings Glazier to the mat for a bout-winning takedown! Smith will see Nebraska's Silas Allred in the second round. 
• UPSET ALERT: #25 Garrett Joles of Minnesota takes out Big Ten rival #12 Jaxon Smith of Maryland 6-5. A second period reversal gave Joles the go-ahead points. Joles will see Binghamton former All-American Lou DePrez in the next round. 
• Levi Hopkins of Campbell has Evan Bockman of Utah Valley in an ALL-ALASKAN bout. I repeat, a first round matchup of two Alaskans. And Bockman with riding time criteria advantage gets the win. 
• Rutgers' former All-American John Poznanski gets a hard fought victory over UNI's talented freshman Wyatt Voelker. 
• Tanner Sloan of South Dakota State blanks Sam Mitchell of Buffalo, 11-0. 
• Jacob Cardenas of Cornell and Rocky Elam of Missouri both win to set up a massive second round bout between two All-Americans. Cardenas defeated Elam 4-0 in the regular season. 
• NC State's Trent Hidlay techs UVA's Kinsey to advance and meet Stanford's boisterous Nik Stemmet in the round of 16. 

285 Pounds

• Lehigh's Nathan Taylor gives up the first takedown but storms back to beat Trevor Tinker of Cal Poly 11-4.
• UPSET ALERT: Iowa's #28 Bradley Hill defeated NC State's #12 Owen Trephan. That was a #25 over #8 seed. Hill will have Big Ten rival Nick Feldman of Ohio State next. 
• PSU's Greg Kerkvliet cruises to a 19-3 tech fall over Indiana's Nick Willham. 
• Mizzou's Zach Elam advances in his hometown of Kansas City with a pinfall of Josiah Hill of Little Rock. 
• Maryland's Seth Nevills has a 7-5 lead over #3 Wyatt Hendrickson of Air Force. Still a lot of time to wrestle in the first period. Nevills holds a 7-6 lead after one period as we pause to wrap up Nevills' bleeding head. Both wrestlers scored takedowns and nearfall in the first three minutes. Hendrickson keeps his cool and survives the scare. The Falcon battles back for an 11-8 victory
• Dayton Pitzer of Pittsburgh is attempting to make a post season run after a very tough early-season injury. He's down 3-0 to Konner Doucet of Oklahoma State. Doucet will hold on to win and advance. 
• Arizona State's Greco-Roman specialist Cohlton Schultz gets a late go-behind over Nebraska's defensive lineman Nash Mutmaacher to win 10-3. 
• Bucknell notched another upset, albeit a. minor one, when D#22 orian Crosby held off #20 Boone McDermott of Oregon State. McDermott had to take injury time earlier in the match but came back to finish the match. Crosby was the #19 seed, McDermott the #14. 
• The arena has emptied out a bit but that only gives allows the Cyclone fans' cheers to ring out more clearly when Yonger Bastida pins Minnesota's Bennett Tabor. Bastida will face Cornell's Lewis Fernandes in the round of 16. 
• Campbell's Taye Ghadiali, the highest ranked (#9) and seeded (#7) Camel at the tournament defeats Virginia Tech's Hunter Catke and will wrestle Michigan's #10 seed Lucas Davison next. 

RESULTS

Upsets are underlined

Pigtails

125: Tristan Lujan (Michigan State) over Mike Joyce (Brown) Dec 8-4

133: Dyson Dunham (VMI) over Cayden Rooks (Indiana) Dec 9-5

141: No match

149: Michael Cetta (Rutgers) over Jeffrey Boyd (The Citadel) TB-1 8-5

157: Isaac Wilcox (Ohio State) over Nick Stampoulos (Buffalo) Dec 8-2

165: Jack Thomsen (Northern Iowa) over Jake Logan (Lehigh) MD 14-3

174: Cael Valencia (Arizona State) over Brody Baumann (Purdue) Dec 5-0

184: Anthony D`Alesio (LIU) over Tomas Brooker (Appalachian State) Dec 10-8

197: Evan Bates (Northwestern) over John Crawford (Franklin and Marshall) Dec 4-3

285: Nick Willham (Indiana) over Jordan Greer (Ohio) Dec 11-4

Round of 32

125: #1 Braeden Davis, Penn State over Tristan Lujan, Michigan State Dec 8-1

125: #17 Brett Ungar, Cornell over #14 Dean Peterson, Rutgers TB-1 2-1

125: #5 Patrick McKee, Minnesota over #20 Kysen Terukina, Iowa State Dec 9-4

125: #11 Richard Figueroa, Arizona State over #31 Ethan Berginc, Army West Point MD 13-2

125: #29 Diego Sotelo, Harvard over #7 Jore Volk, Wyoming Dec 5-3

125: #23 Anthony Noto, Lock Haven over #19 Brandon Kaylor, Oregon State Dec 5-3

125: #21 Stevo Poulin, Northern Colorado over #12 Noah Surtin, Missouri Dec 3-1

125: #4 Matt Ramos, Purdue over #26 Brendan McCrone, Ohio State Dec 4-3

125: #2 Drake Ayala, Iowa over #27 Elijah Griffin, California Baptist MD 10-2

125: #16 Nico Provo, Stanford over #18 Jett Strickenberger, West Virginia MD 13-4

125: #10 Cooper Flynn, Virginia Tech over #32 Brayden Palmer, Chattanooga Dec 2-1

125: #8 Troy Spratley, Oklahoma State over Max Gallagher, Pennsylvania Dec 6-0

125: #9 Jakob Camacho, NC State over #33 Blake West, Northern Illinois Dec 10-7

125: #6 Eric Barnett, Wisconsin over #22 Tanner Jordan, South Dakota State Fall 0:45

125: #13 Caleb Smith, Nebraska over #15 Michael DeAugustino, Michigan SV-1 4-1

125: #3 Luke Stanich, Lehigh over Tyler Klinsky, Rider MD 11-2

133: #3 Daton Fix, Oklahoma State over Dyson Dunham, VMI TF-1.5 7:00

133: #12 Nic Bouzakis, Ohio State over #14 Braxton Brown, Maryland Dec 8-5

133: #17 Julian Chlebove, Arizona State over #15 Dominick Serrano, Northern Colorado Dec 4-1

133: #9 Evan Frost, Iowa State over #27 Braden Basile, Army West Point Dec 8-5

133: #5 Dylan Ragusin, Michigan over #19 Michael Colaiocco, Pennsylvania Dec 9-7

133: #20 Ethan Oakley, Appalachian State over #13 Sam Latona, Virginia Tech Dec 8-7

133: #28 Kurt Phipps, Bucknell over #16 Tyler Wells, Minnesota Dec 5-3

133: #4 Dylan Shawver, Rutgers over #31 Jace Koelzer, Oklahoma MD 10-0

133: #6 Kai Orine, NC State over Hunter Leake, California Baptist MD 10-0

133: #10 Jacob Van Dee, Nebraska over #25 Julian Farber, Northern Iowa Dec 5-1

133: #26 Domenic Zaccone, Campbell over #18 Zeth Romney, Cal Poly Dec 4-1

133: #2 Vito Arujau, Cornell over #33 Gable Strickland, Lock Haven MD 17-4

133: #7 Nasir Bailey, Little Rock over #30 Kade Moore, Missouri Dec 10-4

133: #21 Marlon Yarbrough, Virginia over #8 Aaron Nagao, Penn State MD 13-5

133: #11 Brody Teske, Iowa over #24 Derrick Cardinal, South Dakota State MD 12-4

133: #1 Ryan Crookham, Lehigh over #32 Maximilian Leete, American Dec 4-3

141: #1 Jesse Mendez, Ohio State over Todd Carter, Gardner-Webb TF-1.5 5:31

141: Isaiah Powe, Chattanooga over #17 Dylan Chappell, Bucknell Dec 9-4

141: #8 Brock Hardy, Nebraska over #23 Danny Pucino, Illinois TF-1.5 6:35

141: #7 Sergio Lemley, Michigan over #24 Cleveland Belton, Oregon State Dec 10-8

141: #5 Anthony Echemendia, Iowa State over #27 Greyson Clark, Purdue TF-1.5 6:52

141: #14 Josh Edmond, Missouri over #25 Wyatt Henson, Lock Haven SV-1 4-1

141: #13 Tom Crook, Virginia Tech over #12 Jordan Titus, West Virginia Dec 4-1

141: #4 Ryan Jack, NC State over #26 Clay Carlson, South Dakota State Dec 8-3

141: #3 Real Woods, Iowa over Kai Owen, Columbia TF-1.5 4:36

141: #16 Jesse Vasquez, Arizona State over #20 Malyke Hines, Lehigh Dec 5-2

141: #15 Josh Koderhandt, Navy over #19 Cj Composto, Pennsylvania SV-1 4-1

141: #10 Lachlan McNeil, North Carolina over #28 Jordan Hamdan, Michigan State TF-1.5 7:00

141: #22 Vance Vombaur, Minnesota over #6 Cael Happel, Northern Iowa SV-1 8-5

141: #29 Danny Fongaro, Indiana over #11 Tagen Jamison, Oklahoma State Dec 9-8

141: #21 Mitch Moore, Rutgers over #9 Cole Matthews, Pittsburgh Dec 7-2

141: #2 Beau Bartlett, Penn State over #30 Kal Miller, Maryland Dec 6-1

149: #1 Ridge Lovett, Nebraska over #29 Michael Cetta, Rutgers Fall 1:30

149: #16 Graham Rooks, Indiana over Kelvin Griffin, Lehigh Dec 12-5

149: #26 Ethan Fernandez, Cornell over #31 Caleb Tyus, SIU Edwardsville Dec 7-2

149: #7 Casey Swiderski, Iowa State over Matthew Williams, Army West Point Dec 2-1

149: #6 Ty Watters, West Virginia over #11 Logan Gioffre, Missouri TF-1.5 5:21

149: #21 Willie McDougald, Oklahoma over #12 Ethen Miller, Maryland Dec 5-4

149: #15 Jordan Williams, Oklahoma State over #13 Caleb Rathjen, Iowa Dec 12-5

149: #4 Caleb Henson, Virginia Tech over #22 Alek Martin, South Dakota State TF-1.5 4:41

149: #3 Jackson Arrington, NC State over Jude Swisher, Pennsylvania MD 11-3

149: #14 Dylan D'Emilio, Ohio State over #19 Joseph Zargo, Wisconsin Dec 7-2

149: #20 Gabe Willochell, Wyoming over #30 Quinn Kinner, Rider MD 8-0

149: #5 Austin Gomez, Michigan over Jack Crook, Harvard Dec 18-12

149: #9 Jaden Abas, Stanford over #10 Tyler Kasak, Penn State Dec 4-2

149: #8 Chance Lamer, Cal Poly over #25 Drew Roberts, Minnesota Dec 7-2

149: #17 Cody Bond, Appalachian State over #18 Corbyn Munson, Central Michigan Dec 11-4

149: #2 Kyle Parco, Arizona State over #27 Finn Solomon, Pittsburgh Dec 5-4

157: #1 Levi Haines, Penn State over #23 Isaac Wilcox, Ohio State TF-1.5 7:00

157: #14 Teague Travis, Oklahoma State over #15 Brock Mauller, Missouri Dec 7-2

157: #10 Will Lewan, Michigan over #21 Chase Saldate, Michigan State Dec 4-3

157: #12 Peyton Robb, Nebraska over #19 Trevor Chumbley, Northwestern Dec 1-0

157: #4 Ryder Downey, Northern Iowa over #28 Jared Hill, Oklahoma Dec 4-1

157: #11 Bryce Andonian, Virginia Tech over #25 Lucas Revano, Pennsylvania Dec 5-1

157: #5 Michael Blockhus, Minnesota over #24 Max Brignola, Lehigh Dec 6-4

157: #9 Ed Scott, NC State over #29 Legend Lamer, Cal Poly TF-1.5 6:04

157: #3 Meyer Shapiro, Cornell over #33 Colton Washleski, Rider Fall 4:17

157: #22 Tommy Askey, Appalachian State over #8 Cody Chittum, Iowa State MD 17-6

157: #17 Brayton Lee, Indiana over #26 DJ McGee, George Mason SV-1 4-1

157: #7 Daniel Cardenas, Stanford over #31 Sonny Santiago, North Carolina Dec 5-0

157: #18 Peyten Kellar, Ohio over #27 Johnny Lovett, Central Michigan Dec 1-0

157: #6 Jared Franek, Iowa over #20 Joey Blaze, Purdue TB-1 3-2

157: #13 Cael Swensen, South Dakota State over #16 Vinny Zerban, Northern Colorado Dec 4-1

157: #2 Jacori Teemer, Arizona State over #30 Matty Bianchi, Little Rock Dec 7-3

165: #1 Keegan O'Toole, Missouri over Jack Thomsen, Northern Iowa Fall 2:55

165: #14 Will Miller, Appalachian State over #23 Tyler Lillard, Indiana Dec 5-0

165: #8 Peyton Hall, West Virginia over #26 Stoney Buell, Purdue TF-1.5 6:29

165: #10 Antrell Taylor, Nebraska over #19 Holden Heller, Pittsburgh MD 11-0

165: #5 Dean Hamiti, Wisconsin over #33 Chris Moore, Illinois Fall 2:22

165: #15 Garrett Thompson, Ohio over #20 Caleb Fish, Michigan State Dec 12-6

165: #22 Hunter Garvin, Stanford over #21 Joseph Bianchi, Little Rock MD 11-0

165: #2 David Carr, Iowa State over Evan Maag, George Mason TF-1.5 4:52

165: #3 Julian Ramirez, Cornell over #16 Nick Hamilton, Virginia Dec 5-4

165: #11 Giano Petrucelli, Air Force over #24 Gunner Filipowicz, Army West Point Fall 3:56

165: #28 Noah Mulvaney, Bucknell over #12 Andrew Cerniglia, Navy Dec 10-9

165: #6 Mike Caliendo, Iowa over #32 Blaine Brenner, Minnesota MD 11-2

165: #7 Izzak Olejnik, Oklahoma State over #30 Domonic Baker, Campbell Dec 5-0

165: #9 Cameron Amine, Michigan over #18 Derek Fields, NC State Dec 4-1

165: #13 Brevin Cassella, Binghamton over #17 Connor Brady, Virginia Tech Dec 5-0

165: #4 Mitchell Mesenbrink, Penn State over #25 Maxx Mayfield, Northwestern TF-1.5 5:33

174: #2 Mekhi Lewis, Virginia Tech over Cael Valencia, Arizona State MD 14-3

174: #13 Jackson Turley, Rutgers over #15 Max Maylor, Wisconsin Dec 7-3

174: #1 Carter Starocci, Penn State over #17 Andrew Sparks, Minnesota Dec 12-6

174: #11 Adam Kemp, Cal Poly over #20 Brayden Thompson, Oklahoma State Dec 4-3

174: #25 Jared Simma, Northern Iowa over #9 Philip Conigliaro, Harvard Dec 7-0

174: #19 Tyler Eischens, North Carolina over #7 Patrick Kennedy, Iowa Dec 9-7

174: #16 Justin McCoy, Virginia over #23 Brody Conley, West Virginia Dec 8-4

174: #3 Shane Griffith, Michigan over #30 Alex Faison, NC State TF-1.5 7:00

174: #5 Edmond Ruth, Illinois over Myles Takats, Bucknell Dec 4-1

174: #32 Alex Cramer, Central Michigan over #14 Gaven Sax, North Dakota State Fall 2:37

174: #28 Austin Murphy, Campbell over #24 Peyton Mocco, Missouri Dec 5-3

174: #6 Rocco Welsh, Ohio State over #29 Danny Wask, Navy Dec 4-2

174: #8 Lennox Wolak, Columbia over #22 Benny Baker, Cornell MD 10-1

174: #10 Nick Incontrera, Pennsylvania over #26 Luca Augustine, Pittsburgh Dec 5-2

174: #12 Benjamin Pasiuk, Army West Point over #21 MJ Gaitan, Iowa State Dec 18-11

174: #4 Cade DeVos, South Dakota State over #33 Michael Wilson, Rider TF-1.5 4:43

184: #1 Parker Keckeisen, Northern Iowa over #31 Anthony D'Alesio, LIU MD 10-0

184: #10 Will Feldkamp, Iowa State over #22 Nate Dugan, Princeton Fall 2:29

184: #21 Shane Liegel, Wisconsin over #8 Bennett Berge, South Dakota State MD 9-1

184: #28 David Key, Navy over #7 Sam Wolf, Air Force Dec 4-1

184: #6 Lenny Pinto, Nebraska over Caleb Hopkins, Campbell TF-1.5 7:00

184: #13 Jaden Bullock, Michigan over #19 Brian Soldano, Rutgers Inj. 6:43

184: #14 Aaron Ayzerov, Columbia over #24 Jacob Nolan, Binghamton MD 10-0

184: #4 Trey Munoz, Oregon State over Jha'Quan Anderson, Gardner-Webb TF-1.5 6:29

184: #2 Dustin Plott, Oklahoma State over Malachi DuVall, George Mason TF-1.5 5:00

184: #29 James Conway, Franklin and Marshall over #15 Chris Foca, Cornell Dec 5-4

184: #9 Colton Hawks, Missouri over #18 Gavin Kane, North Carolina Dec 4-2

184: #5 Bernie Truax, Penn State over Cameron Pine, Clarion TF-1.5 5:10

184: #11 Thomas Stewart, Virginia Tech over #26 Maximus Hale, Pennsylvania Fall 0:55

184: #20 Layne Malczewski, Michigan State over #12 Dylan Fishback, NC State Dec 1-0

184: #16 Ryder Rogotzke, Ohio State over #17 Reece Heller, Pittsburgh Fall 2:28

184: #3 Isaiah Salazar, Minnesota over #30 Tony Negron, Arizona State Dec 2-1

197: #1 Aaron Brooks, Penn State over #28 Evan Bates, Northwestern TF-1.5 5:25

197: #18 Joseph Novak, Wyoming over #13 Luke Stout, Princeton Dec 9-6

197: #9 Stephen Little, Little Rock over #27 Cole Urbas, Pennsylvania TF-1.5 5:00

197: #8 Stephen Buchanan, Oklahoma over #29 Benjamin Smith, Cleveland State TF-1.5 5:16

197: #5 Jacob Cardenas, Cornell over #31 Jack Wehmeyer, Columbia Dec 6-0

197: #7 Rocky Elam, Missouri over #14 Mac Stout, Pittsburgh Dec 6-2

197: #24 Evan Bockman, Utah Valley over #15 Levi Hopkins, Campbell TB-3

197: #4 Michael Beard, Lehigh over #23 Justin Rademacher, Oregon State TF-1.5 4:03

197: #3 Tanner Sloan, South Dakota State over #30 Sam Mitchell, Buffalo Fall 5:26

197: #21 John Poznanski, Rutgers over #19 Wyatt Voelker, Northern Iowa Dec 4-2

197: #25 Garrett Joles, Minnesota over #12 Jaxon Smith, Maryland Dec 6-5

197: #6 Lou Deprez, Binghamton over #22 Luke Surber, Oklahoma State Dec 6-0

197: #26 Andy Smith, Virginia Tech over #10 Zach Glazier, Iowa SV-1 4-1

197: #11 Silas Allred, Nebraska over #20 Luke Geog, Ohio State Dec 10-3

197: #17 Nikolas Stemmet, Stanford over #16 Max Shaw, North Carolina Dec 6-4

197: #2 Trent Hidlay, NC State over Krystian Kinsey, Virginia TF-1.5 5:28

285: #1 Greg Kerkvliet, Penn State over #29 Nick Willham, Indiana TF-1.5 5:17

285: #27 Grady Griess, Navy over #17 Cory Day, Binghamton SV-1 4-1

285: #7 Nick Feldman, Ohio State over #18 Keaton Kluever, Hofstra Fall 2:27

285: #28 Bradley Hill, Iowa over #12 Owen Trephan, NC State Dec 4-2

285: #6 Nathan Taylor, Lehigh over #21 Trevor Tinker, Cal Poly Dec 11-4

285: #11 Konner Doucet, Oklahoma State over #13 Dayton Pitzer, Pittsburgh Dec 5-0

285: #14 Yaraslau Slavikouski, Rutgers over #24 Daniel Bucknavich, Cleveland State Dec 4-2

285: #4 Cohlton Schultz, Arizona State over #30 Nash Hutmacher, Nebraska Dec 10-3

285: #3 Wyatt Hendrickson, Air Force over #31 Seth Nevills, Maryland Dec 11-8

285: #22 Dorian Crosby, Bucknell over #20 Boone McDermott, Oregon State Dec 6-5

285: #10 Josh Heindselman, Oklahoma over #25 Matthew Cover, Princeton Dec 4-2

285: #5 Zach Elam, Missouri over #19 Josiah Hill, Little Rock Fall 1:50

285: #9 Taye Ghadiali, Campbell over #16 Hunter Catka, Virginia Tech Dec 8-2

285: #8 Lucas Davison, Michigan over #26 Lucas Stoddard, Army West Point Fall 4:37

285: #15 Lewis Fernandes, Cornell over #23 David Szuba, Rider MD 12-2

285: #2 Yonger Bastida, Iowa State over #32 Bennett Tabor, Minnesota Fall 1:50

That's all the live blogging I have in me for this session. But I'll be back for the second session tonight as we see who makes the quarterfinals and who will see their tournament dreams come to an end on Day 1. 

Too many storylines to summarize in the final paragraphs. Which is why this tournament rules so much. Tug on any thread found in all 10 brackets and watch countless tories unravel. Sorry for all the typos, see you tonight!