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December 17th, 2021| Written by: Staff writer |
The Perry Factor
The Elsensohn-Boyer Uncertainty Principle
On November 27th sophomore
sensation Jacob Elsensohn of Brother Martin dispatched Teurlings Catholic's
Brennan Boyer in 0:32 at the Crusader Duals.
That pushed his record to 18-0.
He is now 24-0, but just barely.
The two met again a week later in the
semifinals of the Black Horse Invitational in Tennessee.
Elsensohn prevailed, but only 6-5.
Boyer, down 4-0 to start the third period,
chose to start standing.
He took down Elsensohn and tacked on two
nearfall points to tie the match.
Elsensohn escaped with 59 seconds remaining
and nobody scored before time ran out.
Did Boyer get that much better in a week, or
did he just have a bad match on the 27th?
Or did Elsensohn have a bad second match
against Boyer.
I do not know.
I did not see the second match, and did not
pay much attention to, nor was there time to do so, the first match.
What might the fact that Boyer has only lost
to Elsensohn (vs. Louisiana competition) due to the Louisiana Classic seedings.
Will we know significantly more after the Trey
Culotta, in which Elsensohn and Perry should be in the same weight class, along
with several other good kids also?
Ask a Magic 8-Ball and you should get "Reply
hazy, try again" or "Cannot predict now."
In principle, that's uncertainty, kind of..
Bernardo, Chino, Luis and Wiley?
Last seconds heroics
At the Zachary Big Horse Open
there were more than a few exciting moments.
Two of the bigger ones involved wrestlers from
Live Oak.
Senior Eagle Lathan Hirschey has
not received a lot of press in the Louisiana Wrestling News - this year or last
season - but who has?
He will be watched closely from now on.
He has an 18-4 record, with losses to EA's
Jesse Maneckshaw (at 120 lbs.), Catholic's Grant Grizzaffi (only losses to
Brother Martin's Richie Clementi), and two to Walker's Kye Karcher.
Karcher beat Hirschey by a close 11-9 win in
the Warrior Open finals, and then 10-8 in a dual meet.
The Bronco Open finals were another two-point
affair, but this time it was Hirschey who prevailed 6-4, giving the freshman his
first setback of the season.
Hirschey was down 4-2 before he reversed
Karcher to his back with five seconds remaining.
Dutchtown senior Cole Mire won
his second tournament of the season (again fulfilling someone's predictions) at
120 lbs. and freshman teammate Cole Gros suffered his first defeat at the hands
of EA's other Maneckshaw, Lucas, who avenged two previous losses.
Holy Cross' Cole Baiamonte won his debut event
at 220 lbs.
The 152 lbs. finals stole the
show, though.
Top-seeded and undefeated Rayden Ingram of
Live Oak was paired against Nick DiGeralamo of Holy Cross, who had an unexpected
Spartan Invitational finals loss to Dutchtown's Foster Shank, but since has
traded wins with St. Paul defending Division I state champion Grant Nastasi.
the two were tied after the first two periods
and after trading reversals in the third, DiGeralamo scored another to take a
two-point advantage with a minute remaining.
Ingram stood-up on the Holy Cross wrestler,
but rather than just getting, or being allowed, an escape, Ingram turned into
DiGeralamo and tripped him to his back, scoring a reversal to tie the match and
three nearfall points to win it 13-10.
One hundred and fifty-two pounds should be a fun weight
class to watch at the Louisiana Classic, if anyone chooses to stay in it.
We still really do not know anything yet.
[This weekend, alas, will be spent finishing one
apartment's rehab, and preparing for another, but much easier, one.
That and my daughter coming in on Monday, and presents to create, buy and
wrap, lunch with a nephew. I had
hoped to go to the McMillan or the Ketelsen, but I really cannot afford to do
so, timewise. I have arranged for my
daughter and her beau to take me to the Trey Culotta finals, albeit I had to
bribe them with dinner at
Silk Road afterward.]
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