Status: Fini

Holy Cross' Dylan Soileau tries to maintain control over Joseph Dupre of Jesuit in the 126 lbs. Division I finals match.

Division I Bracket	Division II Bracket	Division III Bracket
Place Name School 1 (3) Dylan Soileau Holy Cross 2 (4) Joseph Dupre Jesuit 3 (1) Taylor Gambill Brother Martin 4 (2) Jacob Bernard East Ascension 5 (6) Joshua Matthews Catholic 6 (5) Micah Roby Baton Rouge	Place Name School 1 (1) Mason Mauro Shaw 2 (2) Luke Kilchrist Teurlings Catholic 3 (5) Ean Hill Live Oak 4 (4) Matthew Pitts Parkway 5 John Michael Cristler North DeSoto 6 (3) Jonathan Davadi Grace King	Place Name School 1 (1) Kendon Kayser Brusly 2 (2) Matthew Matherne Ouachita Christian 3 (6) Zack Vinson Basile 4 (3) John Watson Lakeside 5 (4) Rhett Maturin North Vermillion  6 Ryan Daigle Thomas Jefferson

Division I

Season Synopsis

For the vast majority of the season this weight class belonged to Brother Martin junior Taylor Gambill.  Before the Trey Culotta, his first Louisiana appearance of the season, Gambill placed second in the Cinco Ranch Big 12 and the Blackhorse Invitational.  Gambill won the Culotta, went undefeated in the Deep South Bayou Duals and placed fifth in the Holy Innocents Prep Slam VII.  A dual meet with Holy Cross preceded the Louisiana Classic, at which he got his first look at the Tigers' Collin Guerra.  Guerra led for the first five minutes and 55 seconds of the match before Gambill scored a reversal which sent the match into overtime.  In that round Gambill scored the Sudden Victory takedown for the win.

At the Louisiana Classic Gambill's first big test was in the quarterfinals against his teammate for the last several years, Mason Mauro, a two-time Division I state champion for the Crusaders who had transferred to Archbishop Shaw for his senior season.  Gambill got past Mauro in 4:20, but then needed a Sudden Victory period to get past the 2014 third place finisher at 120 lbs., Jacob Bernard of East Ascension.  That setup another match with Guerra in which Gambill dominated via a 9-2 win.  After a dual meet versus Rummel, Gambill was undefeated against Louisiana competition with a record of 16-0. It seemed as if Gambill and Guerra, whose only losses in Louisiana were to Gambill, would be the two to meet in the Division I finals

The 126 lbs. weight class, however, was about to get assaulted from both sides.

At 132 lbs. Holy Cross' Dylan Soileau was considered one who might give Brother Martin's Paul Klein some trouble as Klein vied for his fourth Division I championship.  Soileau, who was a second seed in Division II as a freshman in 2012, and who missed the 2013 and 2014 state championships due to an injury and an illness, started the season with nine wins in succession over Louisiana opponents, and two more over out-of-state opponents in Las Vegas.  His next match was against Klein and while he was very aggressive against the Crusader, Klein took advantage of a missed lateral drop to pin Soileau in 3:02.  Trying to rebound at The Louisiana Classic, Soileau notched a high quality win with a 13-2 decision over Teurlings Catholic's Brock Bonin, but he fell twice, once in the quarterfinals and then in the consolation finals, to Brusly's Kendon Kayser. A week later Holy Cross made their weight changes and Soileau was down to 126 lbs., at which he won the GNO Championships.  Having defeated Rummel's and Jesuit's best earlier in the season, Soileau netted a #3 seed in his new weight class.

Hanging around as a second-stringer behind Ben D'Antonio at 120 lbs. and senior Peyton Markey at 126 lbs., Jesuit junior Joseph Dupre was happy to get a chance to wrestle at all.  Due to the absence of D'Antonio at the Louisiana Classic, Dupre competed at 120 lbs. and placed sixth.  A week later at the GNO Championships, also at 120 lbs., and just before Soileau defeated Markey in the 126 lbs. finals, Dupre took first place over teammate Jordan Giewat.  With the return of D'Antonio Dupre moved back to 126 lbs. to compete as a non-scoring wrestler (behind Markey) at the Ken Cole.  After an easy technical fall in his first match, the unseeded Dupre surprised everyone by simply outwrestling Shaw's Mason Mauro, the two-time Division I state champion.  After that he knocked off the sixth seed, Steven Van Zandt of St. Paul's, and then, coming from behind in the third period, he defeated second-seeded Micah Roby in the semifinals.  In the finals Dupre faced a seasoned Joshua Matthews of Catholic, who had defeated Markey in the quarterfinals and then top-seeded Jacob Bernard of East Ascension in the waning seconds of the semifinals.  Dupre again fell behind early but, as should be expected by the son of a Jesuit state champion (Dupre's father Arthur won titles for the Blue Jays in 1973 and 1974), he never quit and eked out a 10-9 win for the championship which sealed his fate at Jesuit's 126 lbs. contender at the upcoming state championships.

Dupre, however, due to a 10-4 loss to Soileau on February 4th, was the fourth seed and found himself on Gambill's side of the bracket.

Preliminary Rounds

No major upsets were recorded in the first two rounds.

Back to Top

Quarterfinals

No upsets were recorded in the quarterfinals, albeit Dupre and the fifth-seeded Roby provided a very entertaining match.

(1) Taylor Gambill (BM) defeated Joseph Davis-Lucas (JE) in 5:47

(4) Joseph Dupre (JES) defeated (5) Micah Roby (BR) 8-4

(3) Dylan Soileau (HC) defeated (6) Joshua Matthews (CAT) 17-10

(2) Jacob Bernard (EA) defeated (7) Dawson Mire (RUM) in 4:26

Back to Top

Semifinals

 In a high scoring match, Dupre caught the top-seeded Gambill in a headlock in the third period to score five points and advance to the finals with a 16-13 upset win.  On the other side of the bracket, Soileau recorded another upset when he bested the second-seeded Bernard 12-6.

(4) Joseph Dupre (JES) defeated (1) Taylor Gambill (BM) 16-13

(3) Dylan Soileau (HC) defeated (2) Jacob Bernard (EA) 12-6

Back to Top

Consolation Rounds

In the consolation finals Bernard put Gambill on his back early with a head throw but could not finish him off.  In the third period Gambill returned the favor and was able to score a fall with 12 seconds remaining.

For fifth place Matthews defeated Roby 9-5 to even their season's series at 2-2.

3rd Place Match: (1) Taylor Gambill (BM) defeated (2) Jacob Bernard in 4:48

5th Place Match: (6) Joshua Matthews (CAT) defeated (5) Micah Roby (BR) 9-5

Back to Top

Finals

(3) Dylan Soileau (HC) defeated (4) Joseph Dupre (JES) 10-4 The senior Tiger again proved too much for the junior Dupre as Soileau built up a 6-1 lead after the first two-and-one-half minutes.  Soileau only allowed Dupre escapes during the match, and he took advantage of them all with ensuing takedowns to register a 10-4 victory and a Division I state championship.  Not enough can be said about Dupre's effort, though, as in a mere three weeks he went from second-string to second in the state.  Soileau finished the season 26-3 against Louisiana competition and 28-5 against all competitors.  DUpre was 25-8 and 27-14.

Back to Top

Division II

Season Synopsis

January 7th was probably a "wake-up call" for a lot of Division II 126 lbs. wrestlers.  Parkway's Matthew Pitts, Teurlings Catholic's Luke Kilchrist and Grace King's Jonathan Davadi had yet to lose to a Division II wrestler, but on January 7th was the day Mason Mauro, the two-time Division I state champion for Brother Martin, made his wrestling debut for Shaw.  Mauro missed the first two months of the season so he could not have been expected to perform great at the Louisiana Classic (in which he placed sixth) or the Ken Cole (in which he placed fifth).  After the Louisiana Classic Mauro got his first and, until the state finals, his hardest Division II match, an 18-3 technical fall over Pitts.  But six matches at the Louisiana Classic and seven at the Ken Cole can whip a wrestler back into shape quickly.  By the state championships Mauro was ready. 

Teurlings Catholic's Luke Kilchrist was seeded second as he had beaten some quality Division I opponents, including Christopher Marson of Denham Springs, Leaf Ballast of Fontainebleau, Mark Stevens of Rummel and Briar Babin of St. Amant.  Come the state tournament, third-seeded Jonathan Davidi of Grace King had no wins over Division I opponents.  Fourth-seeded Matthew Pitts had two wins over Division I opponents, but Davadi's other wins were deemed more impressive and merited a higher seeding.

Preliminary Rounds

No upsets were to be had in the first round, the quarterfinals or the semifinals.

Round 1: Kymani Bryan (NW) defeated Tristan Andrews (SH) in 4:29

Back to Top

Quarterfinals

Back to Top

Semifinals

(1) Mason Mauro (SHW) defeated (4) Matthew Pitts (PKY) in 1:29

(2) Luke Kilchrist (TC) defeated (3) Jonathan Davadi (GK) 12-4

Back to Top

Consolation Rounds

Back to Top

Finals

(1) Mason Mauro (SHW) defeated (2) Luke Kilchrist (TC) 15-6 In the first period Mauro scored a takedown on Kilchrist for a 2-0 lead.  Kilchrist escaped but Mauro took him down again to build a 4-1 lead upon entering the second period.  In that period Mauro started scoring at will, and at its end he led the Rebel junior 11-3.  By the time it was over Mauro had a 15-6 victory and his third consecutive state championship.  Mauro finished his senior season with a 21-4 record against Louisiana opponents and was 21-5 against all comers.  Kilchrist finished with a 19-17 record.

Back to Top

Division III

Season Synopsis

There were probably more than a few Division III wrestlers who were taken aback when the state seeds were released showing Brusly's defending state champion Kendon Kayser at 126 lbs. instead of the 132 lbs. at which he had participated all season.  Kayser, like Cody Hill last year, wanted to get a shot or two against Brother Martin's Paul Klein and hence remained at 132 lbs.  Aside from that, on paper at least, he did not seem to have a lot of reasons to drop to 126 lbs.  Unexpectedly, perhaps, he did drop a 2-1 match to East Ascension's Jacob Bernard at the Catholic Duals, and was surprised by an unexpected fall at the hands of Brock Bonin of Teurlings Catholic.  While he did not get another shot at Bernard, he did avenge his loss to Bonin with a 7-3 semifinals win at the Ken Cole.  Had Kayser not dropped to 126 Brusly would have been without a competitor in that weight class unless they moved up freshman David Kent, who had only participated at 106 lbs. and 113 lbs. in his five matches of the season.  (Kent went 120 lbs. instead, giving Brusly a full 14-man roster in an event that would not prove to be a typical runaway for the Panthers.)

On the other side of the Bracket Ouachita Christian freshman Matthew Matherne had only lost to Louisiana wrestlers from Division I, and good one at that in Joseph Dupre, Micah Roby and Javarious Jones.  John Watson of Lakeside (4th in 2014) and Rhett Maturin of North Vermillion (2nd in 2014) comprised the third and fourth seeds of the weight class.

Preliminary Rounds

No upsets were recorded in the first round, the quarterfinals or the semifinals.

Back to Top

Quarterfinals

Back to Top

Semifinals

(1) Kendon Kayser (BRU) defeated (4) Rhett Maturin (NV) in 1:45

(2) Matthew Matherne (OC) defeated (3) John Watson (LK) 6-3

Back to Top

Consolation Rounds

While Kayser easily won this weight class, the most surprising wrestler was Basile's sixth-seeded junior Zack Vinson of Basile who, after losing to Watson via a fall in the quarterfinals, won two consolation matches prior to a 3-0 consolation semifinals win over #4 Maturin to set-up a 5-2 revenge win against Watson to place third.

Back to Top

Finals

(1) Kendon Kayser (BRU) defeated (2) Matthew Matherne (OC) in 3:22 Kayser needed 3:55 combined to win his quarterfinal and semifinal matches, a full half-minute less to win his second Division III state championship.

Back to Top