If the Chargers' overtime playoff victory Saturday was dramatic, the wheeling and dealing for game tickets and flights to Pittsburgh may be in a league of its own.

Ollie Neglario and Doug Damron of Rancho Penasquitos said they saw it play out Sunday on Southwest Airlines' Web site, as the Baltimore Ravens were stomping the Miami Dolphins in the American Football Conference's other wild-card game.

One-way tickets from San Diego to Pittsburgh this weekend could still be had for $99 at the end of the third quarter.

With the Ravens up 20-3, Neglario, Damron and two friends put down $198 each for round-trip flights.

Their bet paid off; the remaining $99 tickets were snapped up within a few minutes of the end of the game, and the cheapest flights then cost more than $200, Neglario said.

The NFL doesn't necessarily match up either wild-card victor until both games are finished.

As the third seed, the Dolphins would have flown to Pittsburgh to take on the second-seeded Steelers with the fourth-seeded Chargers heading to Nashville to compete against the top-seeded Tennessee Titans.

Instead, the sixth-seeded Ravens will play the Titans.

Neglario, Damron and their two friends also scored $99 hotel rooms just a few blocks from the stadium.

Without that deal or the $99 plane tickets, they might not have gone, Damron said.

Flights to Nashville cost twice as much.

"As long as we can get there on the cheapest budget, we're happy with that," Damron said.

Neglario and Damron said they and their two friends were hoping to get seats at Sunday's game for $200 each.

They're not the only ones hustling to get seats, airline tickets or hotel rooms.

The 1,500 game tickets that fans have sold to one another through www.stubhub.com have cost an average of $298 each, said Sean Pate, a spokesman for the Web site.

"Steelers fans … will spend an arm and a leg for a ticket," he said.

Pennsylvanians account for 34 percent of the buyers, while just 7 percent are Californians, Pate said.

The Steelers organization has released fewer than 700 tickets to the Chargers, a "very limited" number, Chargers spokesman Bill Johnston wrote in an e-mail message.

That's just enough for players' families, employees and business partners, Johnston wrote.

The Chargers are referring other fans to Aer Travel, which is selling ticket packages at http://aertravel.com.

A package that includes a lower-level seat at the game, a two-night hotel stay, fan party and transportation to and from the stadium -- and no airline ticket -- costs $800.

Neglario said that's a bit out of his budget for the divisional playoff.

Still, he and Damron, both season-ticket holders, said they would be at Qualcomm Stadium for a Ravens-Chargers matchup Jan. 18 and might even scrape together the money to go to Nashville that weekend to see the Chargers take on the Titans, if those two teams win this weekend.

Damron said he's ready for whatever comes, including Pittsburgh's winter weather.

He has plenty of winter clothing left over from last year, when New England sent the Chargers fans home with numb hearts and fingers.

"We bought hot chocolate a little before the game started, and by halftime it was frozen," Damron said.

Contact staff writer Chris Bagley at (760) 740-5444 or cbagley@nctimes.com. Bagley blogs about local economic trends at http://bizblogs.nctimes.com.