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106 Pounds
| Mason Mauro - Brother Martin |
| Ben D'Antonio - Jesuit |
| Brock Bonin - Teurlings Catholic |
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Mauro beat D'Antonio in a dual meet between
D'Antonio's wins in the Louisiana Classic and Ken Cole. He slipped
a little at the GNO championships against Jesuit's Nicky Charles, but he
might have taken Mr. Charles a little lightly. Regardless, wins
are not transferable between teammates. Mauro proved superior at
State by beating Rummel's Devyn Breaud in the finals after Breaud upset
D'Antonio in the semifinals. Rummel's Devyn Breaud had a great
second half of the season, but he lost a match to Bonin and Bonin
placed second in the Louisiana Classic and the Ken Cole, and won the
Division II state championship. Christopher Marson could be on
this list but for an injury suffered at the Louisiana Classic which
sidelined him for the rest of the season. |
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113 Pounds
| Mitch Capella - Jesuit |
| Connor Stampley - Comeaux |
| Mitch Napoli - Catholic |
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Capella is an easy choice as he wrestled the
hardest competition Louisiana had to offer and defeated all of them..
Stampley had a great year but he lost to Capella in the two largest
tournaments, the Louisiana Classic and State. Napoli was a solid
third pick as he only lost to Capella and D'Antonio in Louisiana in
matches he could not avenge, and split with Brother Martin's Taylor
Gambill, winning by a better margin than he had lost and doing so in a
major event (the Louisiana Classic). |
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120 Pounds
| Paul Klein - Brother Martin |
| Jacob Dale - Comeaux |
| Alex Nicosia - Holy Cross |
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Wins and losses define the placements.
Against Dale and Nicosia, Klein is 3-1. Against Klein and Nicosia,
Dale in 2-2. Against Klein and Dale, Nicosia is 1-3. |
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126 Pounds
| Cody Hill - Live Oak |
| Brennan Taylor - Catholic |
| Austin Meyn - Brother Martin |
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Ranking this ridiculous weight class is really
pretty easy. Cody Hill has three losses to Brennan Taylor, but
also five wins. He is undefeated against Calcote, Meyn and Foster
of Ehret. Taylor lost a sudden victory match to Rummel's Matt
Calcote in December, but beat him when it most counted at state.
Taylor lost to Meyn twice but the three matches went from Meyn winning
by four points, then two points and then to Taylor defeating Meyn by six
points in the State finals. Taylor gets the nod over Meyn, and
Meyn knocks Calcote to the fourth spot. And, just so we do not
forget, Taylor knocked off the #1 ranked wrestler in three of their
eight matches. |
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132 Pounds
| Connor Campo - St. Paul |
| Rick LaCava - Rummel |
| Trevor Schermer - Brusly |
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Campo beat LaCava every time they wrestled.
LaCava beat Schermer every time they wrestled. LaCava lost to no
one else but Campo. Schermer lost one match to someone other than
LaCava, but that loss was at 138 lbs. to a wrestler who stayed at 138
lbs. |
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138 Pounds
| James Claitor - Catholic |
| David Englehardt - St. Paul |
| Dominic Casadaban - Brother Martin |
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Claitor was an easy choice as he did not lose
to a wrestler from Louisiana in the 2012-13 season. While he did
not do it a 138 lbs., as 145 lbs. Englehardt was undefeated against
Louisiana competition also. Before he was injured Casadaban had no
losses at 138 either. Once Englehardt made his presence known at
138 and Casadaban returned from his injury, they had immediate impacts
on the tournaments in which they entered. They both dominated whoever
got in their way until they faced each other or Claitor.
Englehardt and Casadaban were 1-1 but Englehardt defeated him in the
semifinals of State. |
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145 Pounds
| Grant Godso - Redemptorist |
| Tyler Robertson - Brother Martin |
| Efosa Eboigbe - Jesuit |
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This is a tough one to rank and all roads lead
to Mobius Loops. Godso, despite his loss in the state finals, had
the best season with a 36-3 record and wins at the Central, Sam Sara,
Bulldog, Big Horse and Brusly tournaments, a second place finish at the
Ken Cole (he suffered a concussion in the finals) and a third place
finish at the Louisiana Classic. He lost to Eboigbe at the
Louisiana Classic, but he beat Frame before his injury, at the Sam Sara,
something Eboigbe could not claim after Frame returned. Robertson
returned from injury better that Frame, and beat Eboigbe at the Greater
New Orleans Championships and Frame in the State consolation semifinals. |
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152 Pounds
| Tyrek Malveaux - Comeaux |
| Devin LeBlanc - Brother Martin |
| Alex Martin - De la Salle |
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Tyrek Malveaux dominated 152 lbs. and even
beat Catholic's Brandon Luckett by two points at 160 lbs. He had beaten Brother Martin's Devin LeBlanc
three times and defeated defending Division III state champion Alex
Martin of De la Salle twice. Martin's 160 lbs. record was
impressive enough, but once he dropped to 152 lbs. he posted a 19-1
record with wins in the Brusly Invitational, the Curtis tournament and
the GNO Championships. His only loss had been to Malveaux in the
finals of the Ken Cole. He was 28-5 at 160, with losses to
Malveaux, Leblanc and Peterson, but Peterson stayed at 160 lbs. |
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160 Pounds
| Brandon Luckett - Catholic |
| Louis Stutes - St. Louis |
| Kody Woodson - Shaw |
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Luckett beat almost everyone of any caliber
Louisiana had to offer at 160 lbs., but he and Stutes did not wrestle
each other. But Luckett beat Brother Martin's Devin LeBlanc 11-3
and LeBlanc beat Stutes 5-0, so Luckett gets the nod over Stutes.
Shaw's Kody Woodson split matches with Stutes during the season (the
only match Stutes lost other than the one to LeBlanc), but Woodson lost
to Holy Cross' Brice Duhe in the Division II semifinals. Stutes
beat Duhe by a technical fall (18-3) on January 12th and 8-4 in the
Division II finals. Woodson, however, defeated Duhe by a decision,
a major decision and a fall during the course of the season, which
outweighs his loss in the state tournament. |
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170 Pounds
| Daniel Albrecht - Brother Martin |
| Michael Darwin - Rummel |
| Jimmy Brown - Jesuit |
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Albrecht, despite some close matches, did not
lose at 170 lbs. in Louisiana. Darwin only had one loss to anyone
other than Albrecht and Brown. That was an 8-4 loss to Teurlings
Catholic's Jimmie McBride, but Darwin constantly improved during the
season whereas McBride was probably surprised to be a Division II #2
seed. Darwin's last two matches put him very close to Albrecht.
That and his semifinals pin over Brown negates the fact that Brown beat
Darwin twice. |
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182 Pounds
| Kyle Delaune - Brother Martin |
| Nick Schneider - Teurlings Catholic |
| Gage Grush - Jesuit |
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Delaune was undefeated against Louisiana,
Texas, Oklahoma, Alabama and Florida wrestlers and defeated both
Schneider and Grush twice. Schneider may have lost worse to
Delaune than Grush did, but Schneider did have a 5:47 pin over Grush in
the Louisiana Classic. |
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195 Pounds
| Manny Armour - Jesuit |
| Billy Marcantel - Rayne |
| Orlando Calhoun, Jr. - Northside |
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Manny Armour did not lose to the best
competition Louisiana could offer, and while he and Marcantel did not
meet, Armour won the Louisiana Classic and the Ken Cole at a weight 13
lbs. heavier than Marcantel entered them. Calhoun had losses to
Armour and Marcantel, but to nobody else. |
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220 Pounds
| Daniel Kincade - Northside |
| Ora Wayne Broussard - Sulphur |
| Miles Nash - Sulphur |
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Kincade showed his dominance after only two
weeks of competition, after which he did not lose while winning Division
II State, Ken Cole and Louisiana Classic championships. Broussard
finalized his spot over Nash in the Division I finals. Nash, by
virtue of his runner-up finish versus Broussard and his proper #1
seeding in that tournament, earned the third spot. |
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285 Pounds
| Ross Brister - Brother Martin |
| Spencer Lemoine - John Curtis |
| Zachary Creel - Jesuit |
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While both were undefeated, Brister gets the
top spot over Lemoine due to a much harder schedule against primarily
Division I and out-of-state opponents. Creel proved to be the best of the rest with
his runner-up spot in the Division I finals and wins over both Division
II finalists. |
