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Place	1	2	3	4	5	6
Name	Glenn Price	Daylon Dugas	Nicholas McClendon	Kobe Wise	Ashton Sonnier	Octayvien Tate
School	Shaw	Rayne	Belle Chasse	Rummel	Teurlings Catholic	Carencro
Seed	1	2	3	6	4	8
Final Record	40-2	16-8	16-5	13-10	32-10	16-15
Grade	Sophomore	Sophomore	Junior	Freshman	Sophomore	Senior

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Synopsis

Last season as a freshman Shaw's Glenn Price lost only four wrestlers.  One was via one point in December to Parkway's Joshua Keeler.  Two were to Brother Martin Freshman Eric Devenport.  Another was to Jesuit senior Sam Dreuil, who would go on to a Division I runner-up.  Price, though, went 2-1 vs. Dreuil.  Price's fourth loss was to Basile's Alex Menier.  He avenged the loss to Menier in the Louisiana Classic and to Keeler in the Division II finals.  There would be no avenging the Devenport losses, though, as after the young Crusader was injured in December of 2019 he has not reemerged on the mats.

That left one other wrestler to whom Price lost, and that would be the only wrestler to defeat Price in all of the 2019-20 season.  Holy Cross sophomore and defending Division I state champion Evan Frost.  Price lost to Frost Louisiana Classic, as he did in 2019, and again in the Catholic League District tournament.  Frost however, has been in a different division than Price.  Last season it was simply called "Division I."  This year it was called the "Frost Division," which is higher than Division I. 

The Holy Cross wrestler gets that distinction because Price pretty well "white-washed" the remaining opponents in his weight class with no regard to the state championship divisions.  He beat three Division I and one Division III en route to winning the Warrior Open.  In winning the Lakeshore Open, Price got past two Division I wrestlers as well as opponents from Division II and Division III.  In the Dale Ketelsen Memorial, Division I and Division II.  Before meeting Frost in the Louisiana Classic finals he beat one Division II and two Division I opponents.  Price only had two matches in the Catholic League District Championships, and he beat a Division II opponent prior to another meeting with Frost.  Four of the 17 Division I opponents he defeated placed at the state championships.  Three of his Division II opponents placed as well and one Division III opponent won a Division III state championship.

Rayne sophomore Daylon Dugas is, so far, a mystery of a second-seed to the editor.  No doubt, though, someone did the seeding correctly as Dugas pinned his first two opponents in a total of 4:53 and won his semifinals match 5-0 over a well-seasoned Nicholas McClendon of Belle Chasse.  He was a runner-up at the Lafayette Metro and placed third at the Lone survivor. 

In this weight class however, most placers did not have a lot of experience over the season.  Price wrestled 42 matches.  Dugas competed in only 24 and McClendon, who placed third, only 21.  Fourth-place finisher Kobe Wise of Rummel had just 23 matches.  However, the number of matches in which one participates does not make one better unless matches are close or are losses.  Fifth-place winner Ashton Sonnier of Teurlings Catholic wrestled in 43 matches and his opponent in that match, Octayvien Tate of Carencro, had 31.

Regardless, this was Glenn Price's weight class, and if the editor had written just that, the reader would have gotten to the few pictures I have from it a lot faster.  The next two years should be fun to watch the sophomores Price, and Frost twins, senior Alex Menier of Basile and Ernie Perry, III get better, just wondering if these kids have any limits.

Early Rounds, Quarterfinals, Semifinals, Early Consolation Rounds

Consolation Finals

Ashton Sonnier (TC) defeated Octayvien Tate of Carencro via a 16-0 technical fall to place third

Nicolas McClendon (BC) defeated Kobe Wise (RUM) 9-6 to place fifth

Finals

Glenn Price of Shaw won his second consecutive Division II championship via a fall in 1:19 over Daylon Dugas of Rayne.

Video

Apathy and avarice on the part of two entities have prevented completing a comprehensive pictorial article on the 2020 Louisiana state wrestling championships.

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