OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. -- After the second day of the NCAA Wrestling Championships, Coach Rich Lorenzo sat silent and motionless at matside, perhaps thinking about what easily could have been.

The Lions rose to second in the team standings early in the day, but by the end of the evening, each Penn State wrestler had lost once. What was more frustrating was that none of the losses were by more than two points.

Ken Chertow at 118 and Jim Martin at 126 advanced to the semifinals, but in that round, lost close overtime matches. Michael Stokes of North Carolina State battled Martin to two 2-2 draws in regulation and overtime, but since Stokes' points came on a reversal and Martin's on two escapes, criteria No. 4 gave Stokes the win.

"He hung onto my leg, lifting me and riding me long enough to make a difference," Martin said. "I had legs in. I just slid off him the time he reversed me in the regular match."

"You have to give Stokes credit," Lorenzo said. "He is very powerful and in great position all the time. He doesn't look like he's slowing the match down or stalling, but he really isn't doing too much."

Martin however rebounded to win twice Saturday, downing Nebraska's Jason Kelber, 6-6, 1-0, in overtime and Iowa's Tom Brands, 6-5, to place third.

Chertow battled Jack Cuvo, the eventual champion, to a 6-6 draw in regulation, but Cuvo got an early takedown in overtime and held on for a 2-1 win. Chertow dropped into the consolation bracket and lost twice Saturday to place sixth.

In the team standings, Penn State settled for 10th with a total of 39.75 points. Oklahoma State clinched the team title before the finals began Saturday night, when Kendall Cross at 126 and Chris Barnes at 177 each won their first national championship, with 91.25 points.

Cross defeated Stokes, 5-2, and Barnes upset Lock Haven's Brad Lloyd, the top seed, 1-1, 2-2 overtime, criteria No. 3 (most takedowns in overtime) in the finals.

Arizona State finished second with 70.50 points. Sun Devil Dan St. John scored a takedown with two seconds left in overtime to beat Michigan's Joe Pantaleo, 1-1, 3-1 overtime.

Iowa State crowned two champions and placed third with 63 points. Eric Voelker decisioned Norhtwestern's Mark Whitehead, 7-2, at 190 to win his second NCAA title.

Tim Krieger, a Cyclones' second champion, blanked Karl Monaco of Montclair, 5-0, to win the 150-pound title. Krieger, who recorded three falls in a major decision on his way to the championship, was named the tournament's outstanding wrestler.

Oklahoma (61) finished fourth and Michigan (53.25) was fifth.

"I was a little overzealous at the beginning of overtime," Chertow said of his match with Cuvo. "I knew that if I wrestled a good, intense overtime I'd beat him, but he took me out in the first fifteen seconds.

"I need to dictate the tempo of the entire match, that's my style. The referee hit me with a stalling call early on and kept telling me, 'Shoot, shoot.' I'm more of a push. I dig up underhooks."

"You can't get any closer to beating him than that," Lorenzo said, "but we didn't do it. Kenny wrestled an excellent bout. He had good intensity throughout, and you have to feel good about himself even though he didn't get the number one prize that he wanted to go for."

After losing his first-round match, Andy Voit won four out of five consolation matches to finish seventh and become a three-time All-American.

Three seconds of riding time in overtime cost Voit the match in the consolation quarterfinals. Todd Seiler of Wisconsin won the bout, 1-1,1-1, criteria No. 10, and went on to finish fourth.

"I'm not happy about the tournament," Voit said. I wanted to win it, but I worked very hard this year and did as much as I could to be a national champion."

Heavyweight Greg Haladay dropped a 3-2 decision to Oklahoma State's Kirk Mammen Friday night, but decisioned John Matyiko of Virginia, 4-3, Saturday to place seventh and earn All-America status for the first time.

"I'm happy but I'm not quite satisfied," Haladay said. "I think I could have done a little better but the way I wrestled I fared out all right. I'm not totally satisfied. I've got a lot to work for next year."

In the second round of consolations Firday afternoon, Penn State's hopes of a team title slipped away one match at a time.

Jeff Dernlan lost in the second round of wrestle-backs to Bloomsburg's Tony Reed, 3-1. Dernlan appeared to have a takedown at the end of the match, but the referee disagreed and instead of overtime, Reed advanced to the next round.

Rob Meloy squared off against Jeff Gibbons of Iowa State, the sixth seed at 142, and after six minutes of regulation and three minutes of overtime, each wrestler managed just a pair of escapes. Gibbons had more riding time in the overtime period, and criteria No. 6 sent him into the next round and gave Penn State its second straight setback.

Sean Finkbeiner and Nebraska's Jeff Coltvet traded escapes in their 158-pound consolation bout, but Coltvet's riding time advantage was the difference in a 2-1 win.

In a little over an hour, the Lions fell from second to seventh in the team standings, and those three losses by a total of three points crushed Penn State's realistic hopes of winning the team title.

"They all wrestled hard," Lorenzo said, "but they needed to do just a little bit extra - get a couple breaks here and there - and make a couple of breaks themselves, but they didn't quite do that."

Cuvo won his second 118-pound title, defeating North Carolina's Doug Wyland, 10-8. Edinboro's Sean O'Day became the Fighting Scots first champion ever with an 11-8 win over T.J. Sewell of Oklahoma in the 134-pound final.

Seven seconds of riding time in overtime was the difference at 142 as Pitt's Pat Santoro won his second national championship, 6-6, 1-1, criteria No. 10.

Dave Lee of Wisconsin rolled past Baron Blakley, 14-6, to win the 167-pound championship, and Carlton Haselrig of Pitt-Johnnstown won his third national championship at heavyweight with a 1-0 victory over Northern Iowa's Joel Greenlee.