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Huntington's The'Anthony Taylor tries to escape in the third period in his Division II finals match with Teurlings Catholic's Brennan Trosclair.  Taylor won the title in a Sudden Victory period.

Division I Bracket	Division II Bracket	Division III Bracket
Place Name School 1 (1) Josh Ramirez Rummel 2 (2) Danny Evans  Brother Martin 3 (3) Caleb Faul Dutchtown 4 (5) Kole Miller Comeaux 5 Jalen Dixon Lafayette 6 (3) Jarrett Moss Baton Rouge	Place Name School 1 (2) The'Anthony Taylor Huntington 2 (1) Brennan Trosclair Teurlings Catholic 3 (3) Dylan Verret St. Michael 4 (4) Max Chambers Shaw 5 (6) Joshua Fontenot St. Thomas More 6 Byron Zeno Northside	Place Name School 1 (1) Koby Mancuso Brusly 2 (3) Zyare Hairston Evangel 3 (5) Ellis Herring Episcopal 4 (4) Ryan Hamrick Crescent City 5 Darien Hebert North Vermillion 6 (2) Brandon Turner South Plaquemines

Division I

Season Synopsis

The 160 lbs. weight class was not one in which one or two favorites could be defined at all.  Granted, there were some good wrestlers in the weight class: Baton Rouge's Jarrett Moss, Brother Martin's Danny Evans, Dutchtown's Kaleb Faul and Rummel's Josh Ramirez to name a few.  For a while John Ehret's Jack Fontenot was another in the weight class.  Yet the matches between these wrestlers were extremely close.  In the Dutchtown Griffin Open, both semifinals ended up in Sudden Victory round after neither wrestler could manage more than an escape. Evans' Semifinals actually went as far as a UTB as neither wrestler could take down the other.  On the other mat Jarrett Moss and Fontenot looked to go into overtime, but Fontenot pulled out a one point win.  In the finals match, won by Evans 5-2, a leg injury allowed Evans to trade some takedowns for an escape in what looked to be a 1-1 regulation finish.  The finals of the Spartan Open pitted Faul against Ramirez, and that was a 3-1 match because Faul did score a takedown.

Evans and Ramirez met twice at the Trey Culotta invitational.  In the pool rounds Evans prevailed 6-4 in Sudden Victory.  In the finals, it was Ramirez' turn, winning 2-1 in a TB-1 match.

The addition of a good Division III wrestler, Koby Mancuso, just added to low scoring championship caliber matches.  Catholic's Matthew Mire, wrestling at 160 lbs. at the Catholic Duals in early December, defeated Mancuso by two points, 5-3.   Against Brother Martin Mancuso lost 4-3 to Evans.  In the Louisiana Classic, which Mancuso won, he defeated Ramirez by one point (7-6) in the semifinals and Faul, also by one point (3-2), in the finals.  Faul's victory in the semifinals over Evans was only by a 3-2 score.

This just appeared to be a weight class in which nobody would be dominant until someone took some chances and started scoring.

Preliminary Rounds

No upsets were recorded in the first two rounds.

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Quarterfinals

(1) Joel Ramirez (RUM) defeated (8) Denver Denison (CAT) 15-4 (left three); (4) Kaleb Faul (DUT) defeated (5) Kole Miller (COM) 5-0 (right two)

(3) Jarrett Moss (BR) defeated Sydney Mitchell (EA) 9-7 SV [Moss injured himself in this match and was taken out of the tournament for his protection.]

(2) Danny Evans (BM) defeated (7) Trey Duhon (SUL) 7-6

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Semifinals

(1) Josh Ramirez (RUM) defeated (4) Kaleb Faul (DUT) 7-3

(2) Danny Evans (BM) defeated Jarrett Moss (BR) via a forfeit

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Consolation Rounds

Consolation Round 1: (6) Chase Menendez (DES) defeated Blake Huff (StP.) 10-0

3rd Place Match: (4) Kaleb Faul (DUT) defeated (5) Kole Miller (COM) 4-2

5th Place Match: Jalen Dixon (LAF) defeated (3) Jarrett Moss (BR) via a forfeit

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Finals

(1) Josh Ramirez (RUM) defeated (2) Danny Evans (BM) 6-1 The top seeded Ramirez finally started scoring points against Evans in the consolation finals of the Louisiana Classic, which he won by a 10-2 margin.  Staying in character for this match, however, neither wrestler could score in the first period.  Evans took a brief lead with an escape in the first seven seconds of the second period, but five seconds later he was assessed a penalty point during a clinch.  Thirty seconds later it was Ramirez scoring a takedown to take a 3-1 lead.  In the third period Ramirez scored an escape, took Evans down and rode him until the end, preserving a 6-1 win and a Division I state championship for the freshman Rummel Raider.  Against Louisiana opponents Ramirez was 28-4 while he was 37-7 overall.  Evens finished the season 27-5 and 36-8.

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Division II

Season Synopsis

The #1 and #2 seeds in Division II had not met during the regular season as Teurlings Catholic's Brennan Trosclair spent the entire season at 160 lbs. and Huntington's The'Anthony Taylor wrestled at 170 lbs. until February 10th.  Trosclair was an obvious top seed, as he had not lost to a Division I opponent who was not one of the top five seeds in Division I, except for Jalen Dixon of Lafayette in the Teurlings Rebel Open.  During the course of the season Anthony defeated Dixon twice, but at 170 lbs.  Taylor had only one match "under his belt" at 160 lbs.  (Dixon, though not seeded in the Division I state championships at 160 lbs., nevertheless finished fifth.)

At 170 lbs. The'Anthony Taylor only had two losses to a Division II opponent, and both were to Benton's defending state champion Jordan White.  His other two losses were to Division I opponents.

St. Michael's Dylan Verret was seeded third as he had a loss to a Division II wrestler at 160 lbs. (Kyle Roberts of Live Oak in the Greater Baton Rouge Championships).  Max Chambers of Shaw had a good season but was defeated by Trosclair and Verret and was seeded fourth.

Preliminary Rounds

A minor upset was recorded when Byron Zeno of Northside defeated #8 Avery Jones of Bossier 8-7.

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Quarterfinals

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Semifinals

(1) Brennan Trosclair (TC) defeated (4) Max Chamber (SHW) 5-4

(2) The'Anthony Taylor (HUN) defeated (3) Dylan Verret (StMA) 8-6 SV

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Consolation Rounds

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Finals

(2) The'Anthony Taylor (HUN) defeated (1) Brennan Trosclair (TC) 11-9 SV The top-seeded Trosclair started the scoring with a takedown after a minute had elapsed in the first period, but before the round ended Taylor had managed an escape and a takedown of his own to take a 3-2 advantage into the second period.  In the second period Trosclair rode Taylor for the entire two minutes, setting up a good opportunity to at least tie the match with an escape in the third round.  Trosclair did better than that, though, and scored a reversal to take a 4-3 lead.  Taylor reversed Trosclair again and this time earned two nearfall points for a brief 7-4 lead until Trosclair reversed Taylor near the end of the second period, making the score 7-6 in Taylor's favor.  On top to start the third, Taylor again scored two nearfall points before Trosclair scored another reversal, making the score 9-6.  Trosclair escaped with 15 seconds remaining in the match, and then shot a double-leg takedown near the edge of the mat and stayed in bounds as Taylor fell.  The match was tied at 9-9 and went into Sudden Victory.  In the SV round Taylor attempted what looked like a lateral drop, and while it did not put Trosclair on his back, it was enough for a two point takedown and a state title for Taylor.  Taylor finished the season 21-4 while Trosclair was 31-11 against Louisiana wrestlers and 32-12 including out-of-state competition.

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Division III

Season Synopsis

As far as the whole season is concerned, Brusly's defending Division III state champion Koby Mancuso had the best one of all of the 160 lbs. entrants in all divisions.  His only losses were to Catholic's defending Division I state champion Matthew Mire 5-3 (who later dropped to 152 lbs.), Hoover, Alabama's Jackson Hall and to Danny Evans of Brother Martin, 4-3, at the Deep South Bayou Duals.  He defeated Baton Rouge's Jarrett Moss three times.  He defeated Josh Ramirez and Kaleb Faul en route to the Louisiana Classic championship.  He defeated Comeaux's Kole Miller and East Ascension's Sidney Mitchell.  He also won the Brusly Invitational and the Greater Baton Rouge Championships.

Mancuso was an easy pick as the #1 seed in Division III.  Seeded second was Brandon Turner of South Plaquemines, whom Mancuso pinned in 4:48 in a dual meet, yet Turner merited the #2 spot due to a win over Evangel's Zyare Hairston at the John Curtis tournament.  Mancuso previously defeated Hairston by a 16-4 major decision in the finals of the Brusly Invitational.

Preliminary Rounds

No upsets were recorded in the first round this weight class.

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Quarterfinals

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Semifinals

Third-seeded Zyare Hairston of Evangel upset #2 Brandon Turner of South Plaquemines via a fall in 4:52 in the second semifinals match.

(1) Koby Mancuso (BRU) defeated (5) Ellis Herring (EPI) 10-1

(3) Zyare Hairston (EVA) defeated (2) Brandon Turner (SPL) in 4:52, avenging a 13-5 loss to Turner at the John Curtis Invitational.

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Consolation Rounds

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Finals

(1) Koby Mancuso (BRU) defeated (3) Zyare Hairston (EVA) in 4:57 Mancuso was never really threatened during this match in which he controlled Hairston's legs on takedowns and rode him solidly.  In the end Mancuso appeared to have pulled Hairston back from a sit-out straight to the Evangel wrestler's back, scoring a fall and his second Division III championship in 4:57.  Mancuso finished the season 29-2 against Louisiana competition and 37-3 against all comers.  Hairston finished 23-9 and 26-12.

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