NCAA SESSION ONE WRAP - Getting off to a good start the key for top teams    With eight mats going a thousand miles an hour, and will some real mismatches, the first round session at the NCAA Div. I tournament is a challenge to follow for journalists and fans.    For the teams with a real chance at winning this clambake, the first round is an important hurdle. A few early upsets can help set the tone for the tournament, in a negative way. The key is to get one victory under the belt, then pick it up each session.     The problem is that each kid in this tournament is chasing a personal dream, an NCAA dream. Many of these athletes are facing opponents they've never seen before from other parts of the nation, from different conferences. Sometimes, the style is different. Sometimes, the unseeded athlete is just underrated.     The early round provides a key opportunity for top teams to score bonus points, the extra team points that come from major decisions, technical falls and pins. In a tight team race, every point is important, whether scored in the pigtails or in the gold-medal finals.    The first upset of a top team athlete came at 141, when unseeded JP Reese put No. 7 Luke Moffit on his back for an "almost pin," then Reese went on to a dominating 14-4 major decision upset. These are the kind of losses that challenge teams to pick it up early.    It was not a big round for upsets. In fact only a few occurred the entire session. When unseeded Marat Tomaev of Penn State edged #12 Rad Martinez at 133, it was the first seed to go down. Next came Moffit's loss, a No. 7. Another No. 7 was beaten at 157, when Joe Carr of West Virginia lost 6-1 to Adam Britt of VMI.     However, the "big upset" did happen at 184 pounds, when No. 1 Scott Justus of Virginia Tech was shocked by unseeded Rowdy Lundegreen of Cal-State Fullerton, 14-7. Lundegreen pumped his arms to the crowd to celebrate every unrecognized wrestler's dream, knocking off the No. 1 seed in the first round.    A few more seeds went down. At 184, Josh Millard of Lock Haven stopped Albany-area native and No. 9 Pat Popolizio of Oklahoma State, 7-5. At 197, freshman No. 7 Chris Skretkowicz lost a 12-3 major decision to talented Justin Ruiz of Nebraska, who lost some time in his wrestling career due an Mormon mission. Also at 197, No. 9 Erik Gladish of Arizona State fell to David Sandberg of Pittsburgh, 11-7.    The Minnesota Gophers, returning champions and top favorite, started well. In fact, the Gophers went 9 for 9 in the first session. One athlete had a bye.    125-pound star and No. 2 Leroy Vega, going for a fourth All-American honor, started off with 13-4 win over Jared Opfer of Kent State. Teammate Ryan Lewis, No. 1 at 133, opened up the offense with a 22-9 major over Joe Cristaldi of Drexel. The streak kept up with No. 8 Chad Erikson with an 8-5 win at 141 pounds over Chad Caros of Edinboro.    Then came No. 2 Jared Lawrence (149), a pin over Greg Austin of Rutgers in 6:41. No. 3 Luke Becker (157) added more bonus points by pinned Gabe Webster of Cornell in 5:37. Unseeded Nate Baker barely kept the streak going with a 13-11 squeaker over Pierre Prior of NC State at 165 pounds. No. 8 Jacob Volkman scored an impressive tech. fall over Luke Moore of Ohio, 18-3, getting the bonus points flowing again. No. 2 Damion Hahn (184) won a close 4-1 match against Ali Abri of Boston Univ. No. 3 Owen Elzen (197) finished it off with a 14-3 major decision victory over Nick Ciarcia of Brown.     No. 7 Luke Eustice of Iowa got the Hawkeye section fired up with the Hawkeye's first win at 125. No. 6 Cliff Moore started strong with a 19-8 major over Efram Ceballos of Bakersfield at 133. Then came Moffitt's loss at 141. Although the Hawks rebounded, the loss of a seed showed how tough it will be for the Hawks to move up on Minnesota here.   .  Oklahoma, with 10 in the field, went for big bonus points when possible. No. 3 Witt Durden opened it up at 133 with a 18-3 technical fall over over Cory Ace of Edinboro. Unseeded Nate Parker grabbed some bonus points with a 57 second fall over Brad Metzler of Stanford at 141 pounds. At 149, Jared Frayer scored major decision points with a 12-1 whipping of Jon Garvin of Northern Iowa. The Sooners got major decisions from Michael Barger at 174 and Tommy Grossman at 197. Josh Lambrecht did even better, a pin over Jeffrey Moskyok of Duquesne in 1:30 at 184 pounds. The Sooners lost only one bout for the day, a pigtail loss by Doug Cieleski at 157 pounds. Big man Leonce Crump closed it out with an 12-0 major decision at heavyweight over Ryan Kehler of West Virginia.    NOTES    Pigtails - No. 1 Mark Conley of Navy caught a pigtail draw at 141, beating Jared Sullivan of UT-Chattanooga in the first cycle, 8-3. At the same weight, No. 3 Sean Gray of Virginia Tech also snagged a pigtail against Clinton Fease of Brown. Gray got the tournament's first fall, nailing Fease in 1:38.    The only other seed with a pigtail was No. 6 Rick Springman of Penn at 174, who put up a 16-1 technical fall on Pat Owens of Boise State.    First round byes - Because the selection of wildcards makes the number of wrestlers different in each weight class, two weight classes did not have the full 32-man field. Drawing a first-round bye at 184 pounds was No. 4 Jessman Smith of Iowa. With first-round byes at heavyweight was No. 4 Garrett Lowney of Minnesota and No. 11 James Huml of Oklahoma State.    First overtime - Match No. 2 was the first in an extra session, with No. 12 Twan Pham of Illinois beating unseeded but returning All-American Mario Stewart of Lehigh, 3-1 in overtime with a leg attack takedown. This may have been the most competitive pigtail.    Only two teams qualified full 10-athlete teams, Big 10 Champion Minnesota and Big 12 Champion Oklahoma.  With nine qualifiers are Oklahoma State, Illinois, Michigan and Ohio State. Eight was a charm for Pac-10 champion Boise State, Iowa, Northern Iowa and Oregon.    Going for No. 3 - Stephen Abas of Fresno State, top dog at 125, drew fellow California native Jose Leon of Boston Univ. in the first round. The match was no blowout. There was no takedown and Abas rode Leon the entire second period. The first point was a third period escape by Abas. There was no more scoring, but Abas got the riding time for a 2-0 win.    Starting with a fall - Jason Powell of Nebraska, No. 8 at 125, was an early fall victim last year. This time, he decked Jesse Lenge of Ohio State to get off to a strong start.    Hawaii's favorite son - Travis Lee of Cornell, the pride of Hawaii and the EIWA champion as a freshman, started his first NCAA Tournament with a solid 6-3 win over Matthew Pitts of Chattanooga. Lee has the No. 11 seed.    Who's that guy - Central Michigan is solving the age-old problem of identifying athletes in this eight-mat circus by putting the athlete's name on the back of his singlet. When Jason Mester battled Indiana's Coyte Cooper in their 1st-round 141 bout, it was easy to follow the match. Cooper won 3-1. The only problem with this strategy would be for athletes with long last names, like Levin Weikel-Magden of Stanford at 157.     Cael Sanderson watch, on the way to perfection - Victim No. 155 for Sanderson was Eric Mausser of Clarion. It took about 15 seconds for Sanderson's first leg attack takedown, then he played some let-him-up, take him down wrestling. Sanderson's third takedown, a double leg, resulted in some back points. The first period ended 12-5 for Sanderson. In the second period, Mauser tried some legs on Sanderson, which resulted in a quick reversal, then a cradle, then a fall for Sanderson in 3:32. His match, in the corner on mat 4, was jammed with photographers documenting the historic quest.    Hoping to meet Sanderson - Jon Trenge of Lehigh, the No. 2 seed at 197, is hoping he might meet Sanderson in a historic finals match on Saturday. Clad with eyegear to protect an eye injury that caused him to miss the 2001 NCAA meet, Trenge looked fired up for action, with a quick pin over Marcio Bothelo of Fresno State in 1:47.    Top freshman? - No. 2 seed Steve Mocco of Iowa, considered by many the best freshman in the nation, opened h