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Place	1	2	3	4	5	6
Name	Blake Menier	Keyshawn Jones	Marc Martinez	Cade Hontiveros	Liam O'Connor	Garrett Davis
School	Basile	St. Louis	Brusly	Hannan	De la Salle	Dunham
Seed	1	3	2	5	4	NS
Final Record	25-4	37-15	17-11	22-13	20-9	4-12
Grade	Senior	Senior	Junior	Junior	Freshman	Junior

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Synopsis

Seeded fifth in 2019, Basile's Blake Menier defeated the fourth seed via a 17-1 technical fall, followed by a 16-10 win over the top-seed in the semifinals and then won a state championship via a 3-1 win.   Menier earned the top seeding spot in 2020, though. 

Having no experience with Brusly's Marc Martinez, the second seed, did not come into play as Martinez was upset by third-seeded Keyshawn Jones of St. Louis.  Menier had experience with Jones having defeated him 10-4 in the finals of the Rayne Invitational.  During the season Menier placed third at the Jacob McMillan Memorial, won the Brusly Invitational and placed third at the Ken Cole, losing to the eventual champion and Division II state champion Tyrick Clay of Carencro.  Menier only had three matches at the state tournament.  He pinned his quarterfinals and finals opponents but had a tougher time in the semifinal with Hannan's Cade Hontiveros in a 5-1 win.

This was the second time the Menier family had two state champions.

Johnson was seeded third as Martinez defeated him in a dual meet on January 3rd.  He placed fourth at the Warrior Open, first in the consolation round of the Lakeshore Open, second at the Brusly Invitational and the Rayne Invitational (both losses to Menier) and won the Jesse James Southwest Shootout.  His route to the finals included a round-one bye, a fall in 2:48 and a slugfest of a semifinals with Martinez, with Johnson coming out on top of a 17-11 score

Early Rounds, Quarterfinals, Semifinals, Early Consolation Rounds

Consolation Finals

Finals

(1) Blake Menier of Basile pinned (3) Keyshawn Jones of St. Louis in 5:30

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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