2019 NCAA Championships

Second Round Upsets At The 2019 NCAA Tournament

Second Round Upsets At The 2019 NCAA Tournament

Second Round Upsets At The 2019 NCAA Tournament

Mar 22, 2019 by Wrestling Nomad
Second Round Upsets At The 2019 NCAA Tournament
Holy crap was that a great round of wrestling. Let's get right into it and check out all of the upsets from the Thursday night session.

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Holy crap was that a great round of wrestling. Let's get right into it and check out all of the upsets from the Thursday night session.

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Every upset listed below is based on seeds and nothing else. Only round of 16 matches were included. Both 125 and 133 went chalk in the second round.


141 Pounds

#9 Dom Demas (Oklahoma) 3-1 over #8 Kanen Storr (Michigan)

#13 Kyle Shoop (Lock Haven) 19-10 over #4 Josh Alber (Northern Iowa)

#22 Max Murin (Iowa) 4-3 over #6 Mikey Carr (Illinois)

The Big 12 champ Demas fended off Kanen Storr for over six minutes and took the Wolverine down right before time expired to avenge his loss in the third place match at CKLV. At last year's CKLV, Alber whooped Shoop not once, but twice. The junior turned it around though, turning Alber three times and majoring him despite giving up five takedowns. Shocking that a team coached by Scott Moore, who had 34 pins his senior year, would be good on top. As I picked in the 141lb preview, Murin took his second straight over Mikey Carr to make the quarters.


157 Pounds

#9 Christian Pagdilao (Arizona State) 11-7 over #8 Josh Humphreys (Lehigh)

Not much of an upset here, but it was revenge for a dual loss earlier in the season.


165 Pounds

#11 Bryce Steiert (Northern Iowa) 2-1 over #6 Logan Massa (Michigan)

The Panther junior won on a third period reversal, sending Massa to the backside on day one for the second year in a row.


174 Pounds

#22 Ben Harvey (Army) 5-3SV over #6 David McFadden (Virginia Tech)

#10 Mikey Labriola (Nebraska) 8-4 over #7 Jacobe Smith (Oklahoma State)

One of the few guys to be mentioned in the upsets article from the morning, Harvey takes out two-time AA McFadden in overtime. After giving up the initial takedown, Labriola had a huge four point move to close out the second and give him his second career win over Jacobe.


184 Pounds

#15 Chip Ness (North Carolina) 8-5 over #2 Shakur Rasheed (Penn State)

#13 Nino Bonaccorsi (Pittsburgh) 9-7 over #4 Emery Parker (Illinois)

Chip Ness, man. This guy has now beaten Taylor Venz, Emery Parker, and Shakur Rasheed on day one the past two years. The key moment was Ness landing on top of Rasheed for six in the final 30 seconds of the match. In one of the most predicted upsets, Bonaccorsi represented his city and earned two penalty points to upset the returning third placer.


197 Pounds

#21 Thomas Lane (Cal Poly) 4-2SV over #5 Jacob Warner (Iowa)

#11 Christian Brunner (Purdue) 6-2 over #6 Willie Miklus (Iowa State)

#10 Tom Sleigh (Virginia Tech) 9-8 over #7 Jay Aiello (Virginia)

After choosing neutral in the third, Warner was taken down and ridden out to force overtime. He got a stalemate on Lane's first shot, but the second one in sudden victory send the freshman to the consis in his first go round at NCAAs. The U23 world team member Brunner got takedowns in the first and third to beat 3x AA Miklus. Sleigh won the rubber match over his in-state ACC rival.


285 Pounds

#28 Sam Stoll (Iowa) 1-0 over #12 Conan Jennings (Northwestern)

#9 Matt Stencel (Central Michigan) 17-9 over #8 Demetrius Thomas (Pittsburgh)

Again, upset in seed only. Stoll is a returning AA who's already beaten Jennings. Stencel avenges the pin by Thomas at CKLV with a major to put himself in the quarterfinals.