Friday provided some excellent
wrestling at Brother Martin's Trey Culotta Invitational.
Consistency, of course, was the rule, but it does have the
advantage of seeding going for it. The unexpected made
its presence known also. At times they went
hand-in-hand.
Take the 152 pounds for instance. Jesuit's Efosa
Eboigbe, the #1 seed, was predicted to defeat #3 seed Mason
Williams of Brother Martin. But not in 39 seconds.
Second seeded Rick Lacava of Rummel was fortunate to go out
of bounds in the third period against Jesuit's Will
Lafranca. The ensuing start on the bottom with 15
seconds remaining proved to be just enough time for Lacava
to score the winning escape point.
Tanner Leblanc of St. Paul's and Jesuit's Gaston Eymard
battled in a 6-5 match won by Leblanc.
Upsets included a second loss on the year by Brother
Martin's Yehia Riles at the hands of Jesuit sophomore Guy
Patron, Jr.
Brother Martin's Paul Klein and Live Oak's Cody Hill both
looked very sharp. A collision course is expected,
albeit Cushing's Roberts may provide Hill with some trouble
on Saturday. Klein got past the Oklahoma State
runner-up 8-3.
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Thirteen teams are participating in the 2013
Trey Culotta Invitational. With 19
entries, the Unattached team jumped to an
early lead, but after Friday's matches were
completed it dropped back to fourth place,
having 221 points going into Saturday's
championship tournament brackets. The
Brother Martin Crusaders lead the event
after the first day with 310 points.
Vestavia Hills of Alabama is second with
265, followed by Cushing, OK with 222.5.
The Jesuit Blue Jays are hanging tough,
posting 211 points to, probably only
temporarily, find themselves in the fifth
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TOP EIGHT POOL PLACERS
Each weight class pool consisted of two groups of five or
six wrestlers each. Wrestlers competed against all members
of their pools on Friday, with the top four in each pool
advancing to the Saturday championship brackets.
Complete pool results and Saturday brackets may be found by
clicking
HERE, entering the "Trey Culotta Invitational,"
then clicking "Results" and choosing a weight class from the
drop-down menu.
"Friday's match of the weight class" is admittedly biased
toward the matches the LWN editor viewed. |
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106 Pounds
Brody Martin of Jesuit and Steven
Rumney of Brother Martin
(unattached) went through the pools
unscathed with 5-0 records.
Live Oak's Colt Olinde and Brother
Martin's Steven Shields posted 4-1
records. Robert Fairchild
(RUM), Tucker Boesch (RUM-UN),
Spencer Haddock (VH) and Matthew
Smolin (HOU) also qualified for
Saturday's championship bracket.
Friday's match of the weight class:
Martin over Shields 6-4.
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Live Oak's Colt Olinde, a Division II state
runner-up in 2013, defeated Spencer Haddock
of Vestavia Hills by a 13-4 major decision. |
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113 Pounds
Brother Martin's Mason Mauro
and East Ascension's Alex Betteridge
went 5-0 in the pool competition.
Ben Wisniewski (BM-UN), Jacob
Chenevert (LO), Nicky Charles (JES),
Austin Walsh (CUS)Jack Stoves (VH)
and Stevie Van Zandt (StP) also
qualified for Saturday's
championship bracket.
Friday's match of the weight class:
Betteridge over Charles 7-3.
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East Ascension's Alex Betteridge proves he
knows the rules quite well, keeping his feet
inside the circle after lateralling Jesuit's
Nicky Charles to take his first lead of
their match. Betteridge won the match
7-3. |
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120 Pounds
Top seeds Daniel Hood (CUS) and
Jacob Bernard (EA) were 5-0.
Ben D'Antonio (JES) and the "more
valuable every day" Ryan Genco (BM)
lost only one match apiece (to the
top seeds in their pools.
Mason Miller (CUS-UN), Nicholas des
Bordes (MND), Jared Enochs (StTh)
amd Quin Estes (VH) also qualified
for Saturday's championship bracket.
Friday's match of the weight class:
Genco over Arthur (#4 seed of
Houston) 5-3.
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Jesuit's Ben D'Antonio's scoring efforts
proved to be too late against the 120 lbs.
top seed Daniel Hood of Cushing. Hood
went on to win the match via a 17-3 major
decision. |
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126 Pounds
Taylor Gambill (BM) and Tyler Mire (RUM)
were 5-0. Andrew Munn (StT) and
David Drago (BM-UN), coming off of an
ULT-TB victory over Ben D'Antonio (JES)
last week, were 4-1. Bowman Hill
(VH), Matthew Ashford (EA), Andrew Munn
(StTh), Blake Burden (CUS) and Max
Grosch (JES) make up the remainder of
the eight-man championship bracket.
Friday's match of the weight class:
Genco over Burden 3-2.
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Brother Martin's Taylor Gambill, the top
seed at 126 lbs., had a more difficult time
with Andrew Munn of St. Thomas than this fall
in 4:40 indicated. Both sophomores,
Gambill is undefeated while Munn only had
one previous loss, to Comeaux's Connor
Stampley, in the finals of The Woodlands
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132 Pounds
Paul Klein (BM) and Cody Hill (LO)
cruised through their pools 5-0.
Mason Roberts (CUS) and, after an upset
of Jeremy Strong (VH), Grayson Young
(HOU) went 4-1. Hunter Bourgeois (StP),
Zack Lawson (FNT), Strong and Christian
Mire (RUM) complete Saturday's
championship bracket.
Friday's match of the weight class:
Klein over Roberts 8-3.
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Cody Hill of Live Oak scores a single-leg
against Vestavia Hills' Jeremy Strong en
route to a 14-6 major decision. |
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138 Pounds
Austin Meyn (BM) and Rick Lacava
(RUM) went undefeated at 138, which
is considered by many to be the most
competitive weight class in
Louisiana. Hayden Hill (VH)
and Will Lafranca (JES) were 4-1.
Alaa Shihadeh (HOU), Garrin
Pellegrin (MND), Blaine Eisensohn
(BM-UN) and Walker Holifield (CUS)
also qualified for Saturday's
championship bracket.
Friday's match of the weight class:
Lacava over Lafranca 3-2.
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Rick Lacava of Rummel rides Alaa Shihadeh of
Houston. Lacava scored a 19-4
technical fall in the match after 4:33 had
elapsed. |
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145 Pounds
Crusader teammates Pierce Williams
(scoring) and Danny Evans (UN) went
5-0. Shaw's Brice Ballas was 4-1,
his sole loss coming via Williams.
Ashton Queyrouze (JES) also went
4-1. Zach Bowman (RUM), Grant
Redden (VH), Jacob Miller (CUS) and
Matthew Dale (CUS) complete
Saturday's championship bracket.
Friday's match of the weight class:
Queyrouze over Miller 6-1.
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Top seed Pierce Williams of Brother Martin
repels a takedown attempt by Grant Redden of
Vestavia Hills, prior to pinning Redden in
3:15. |
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152 Pounds
Eboigbe won five matches in all of
six minutes (not leaving time, of
course, for anything but falls).
Morgan Paugh (VH) was 5-0 in Pool
"B." Mason Williams (BM) and
Joe Kerry (RUM) were 4-1 on the day.
Peyton Carmin (CUS), Dequan Jackson
(EA), Garret Baumann (MND) and Sam
Dufour (StP) round out the
championship bracket.
Friday's match of the weight class:
Eboigbe over Williams in 0:39.
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Efosa Eboigbe of Jesuit defends against an
ankle dive from East Ascension's Dequan
Jackson. Eboigbe won the match via a
fall in 2:32, his longest match of the day. |
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160 Pounds
Tanner Leblanc (StP) was the only
wrestler who posted a 5-0 record on
Friday. Three others went 4-1.
Second seed Travis Quarterman (BM)
fell to George Dazzio (VH) 5-4 in
the first tie-breaker round after
SV. Dazzio lost to Guillermo
Suarez (RUM) via a 3: 28 fall. In
Leblanc's pool, Gaston Eymard (JES)
was 4-1, but he lost according to
seeding versus Leblanc.
Friday's match of the weight class:
Leblanc over Eymard 6-5.
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Travis Quarterman of Brother Martin stacked
Rummel's Guillermo Suarez in 3:57. |
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170 Pounds
Kyle Medding (VH) followed Leblanc's
lead in being the only 5-0 pool
champion, competing in Pool "B,"
which played-out as it was expected
to, as Nick Comardelle (BM) went
4-1.
Pool "A" was less accommodating,
following the 160 lbs. Pool "B"
antics. Top seed Brody Bonura
(LO) was 4-1, with a loss via a fall
to Chase Cochran (StP) in 2:42.
Cochran was 4-1 also, and lost his
match in 4:37 to north shore rival
Frankie Arena (MND). There
being little if any room (I did not
do the math) for three 4-1 records
in one six-man pool (with a bye),
Arena lost matches to Josh Houtchens
(CUS) in 0:51 and to Bonura 11-5.
Anthony Quijano (BM-UN), Adam
Bosworth (EA) and Sina Setayeshpour
(HOU) filled up the remaining three
spots in Saturday's championship
bracket.
Friday's match of the weight class:
Houtchens over Arena in 0:51.
(It was Houtchens' sole victory on
the day.)
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Nick Comardelle of Brother Martin scores a
double-leg takedown against Houston's Sina
Setayeshpour. Comardelle won via a
fall in 4:36. |
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182 Pounds
Second seed Ethan Eisenhardt (FNT)
and third seed Guy Patron, Jr. (JES)
were the 5-0 wrestlers in this
weight class. Eisenhardt was
expected to do so. Patron was
expected to place second in his
pool. But Patron rose to the
occasion to hand top-seeded Yehia
Riles (BM) his second loss of the
season. Riles finished the day
4-1 as did Garrett Hunt (CUS).
Wyatt Beall (HOU), James Young
(RUM), James Edwards (VH) and Koi
Malarcher (EA) complete the Saturday
championship bracket.
Friday's match of the weight class:
Patron, Jr. over Riles 6-3.
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Koi Malarcher of East Ascension attempts a
takedown on Allen Krause of St. Thomas.
Malarcher scored a fall in 1:50. |
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195 Pounds
Top seed Joshua Tapia (BM) went 5-0, but
that was about the only thing in this
weight class that was close to form.
Second seed Cody Reneau went 1-4.
In Tapia's pool it was Daniel Rowell
(CUS-UN) who went 4-1. In the
other pool it was Travis Viener (BM-UN)
and Daniel Priola (FNT) who did the
same. Brennan Falcon (SHW), Nick
Simoneaux (LO), Austin Guedry (EA) and
McNeill Gardner (VH) also qualified for
Saturday's championship bracket.
Friday's match of the weight class:
Guedry over Reneau in 3:30.
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An already bad day for Cushing's second
seeded Cody Reneau got worse after East
Ascension's Austin Guedry scored a fall
against him in 3:30. |
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220 Pounds
In all likelihood Dalton Campbell
(VH) had five wins in less time than
Eboigbe did at 152 lbs., but one was
recorded as 0:00. His three
recorded falls and a technical fall
at 3:38 added up to 5:12, allowing
him 47 seconds to best Eboigbe's
mark. That may have been
asking too much versus Garret
Kugelmann (FNT), though. Jacob
Clapp was 4-1 in Campbell's pool.
Trevor Hubble (CUS) was also 5-0.
Tyler Fontana kept to form with a
4-1 record. Derion Morris
(EA), Alexander Tekle (HOU) and Adam
Albarado (SHW) complete the Saturday
championship bracket.
Friday's match of the weight class:
For lack of any other actual
knowledge, a pin occurring with no
match time having elapsed is pretty
remarkable.
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Deceptively quick in a 220 pound frame,
Dalton Campbell, an Alabama state runner-up
in 2013, dominated his pool. In this
instance Colin Francis of St. Paul's
succumbed to a fall in 0:40. |
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285 Pounds
Conor Karwath went 5-0 with five
pins, and Dominic Carmello went 5-0
with four. According to
seeding Christian Ponson (FNT) and
Mac Ramsey (CUS) went 4-1.
Benjamin Cage (VH), Campbell
Clarkson (StTh), Matthew Blair (RUM)
and Matt Maltabon (BM) complete
Saturday's championship field.
Friday's match of the weight class:
Carmello over Brandt O'Brien (RUM)
6-2. It was a very good
showing by O'Brien, who prevailed in
only one match on the day.
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Conor Karwath, East Ascension's top seed at
285 lbs., removes his headgear after pinning
Campbell Thompson of St. Thomas in 0:40 |
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