2022 LHSAA State Wrestling Championships February 11th-12th 2022 Raising Cane's River Center Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Place	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th
Podium
Name	Watts Goodson	Ty Duncan	Wiley Boudreaux	Caleb Lavine	Treyven Gaspard	Peyton Plunket
School	Catholic	Brother Martin	Southside	Sam Houston	Comeaux	Parkway
Seed	2	4	1	3	7	8
Class	11	11	11	9	12	11
Final Record*	34-4	43-7	46-5	58-7	30-13	29-9

*    Records include all wins but only losses to Louisiana wrestlers.  Forfeits and defaults are not counted.

So, a boy takes his father to lunch, and his father asks...

Watts Goodson may not have run-up the prettiest wins en route to his title, but a win by any other name...(I should finish a sentence)…is still a win.  After a bye and a quick fall in the second period, Goodson defeated the eighth seed 4-1, the third seed 5-2 and the fourth seed 7-5 to take a state championship home for Catholic.  The four points he scored put the Bears two points ahead of Jesuit for the runner-up spot behind Brother Martin, who had sealed the team title before the finals started.

Seeding Synopsis

Southside junior Wiley Boudreaux had almost owned 126 lbs. before the Louisiana Classic.  That he did so was a little surprising after a rather inauspicious start.  His loss to East Ascension's Lucas Maneckshaw via a fall in 1:23 in the Spartan Invitation finals appeared to be a "Welcome to Division I" episode for the 2021 Division III state champion and Outstanding Wrestler award winner.  He soon earned some Division I respect with a win over Comeaux's Treyven Gaspard in the Ronnie Suarez SPOT District finals.  After that he scored a lot more clout with a 9-4 win over Sam Houston freshman Caleb Lavine, whom, at the time, was 25-0, with four tournament championships.  Three days later he defeated Teurlings Catholic’s defending state champion Ethan Boudreaux.  Boudreaux the Shark then won the Jacob McMillan, with another win over the Rebel Boudreaux. 

“Welcome to Division I” came back in the pools round of the Trey Culotta, at which he dropped to 126 lbs.  He was whipping Parkway’s Peyton Plunkett 11-2 when Plunkett took him down and pinned him.  That cost him a better seeding spot in the championship bracket the following day, but Brother Martin’s Hunter Chabert disregarded the second seed 8-0 MD, and after Boudreaux disregarded the third seed he dispatched Chabert to make the finals.  There, he met the Alabama state champion Zack Flurry of Vestavia Hills.  After a 2-2 first period, Boudreaux let loose with 10 unanswered points prior to pinning Flurry in the third period.  He followed that with a Lone Survivor championship in which he teched Plunkett and defeated Lavine a second time in the finals.  Boudreaux was seeded second at the LACL, and he finished second, and in the semifinals he won an important 10-9 match over Catholic’s Watts Goodson.  He placed second at the Ken Cole and there recorded his third win over Lavine.  Undefeated or avenged against Division I competition, Boudreaux was the top seed.

Goodson was chosen for the second spot, and correctly so, even though he had a 4-1 loss to Brother Martin’s #4 Ty Duncan.  Two of Goodson’s three losses were to Brother Martin’s Mason Elsensohn, but those matches were at 132 lbs.  His loss to Duncan was in a dual meet, and his only other was the one-point affair with Boudreaux.  He also had two wins over Lavine

Lavine had two wins over Duncan and six tournament championships: the Warrior Open, Lakeshore Open, Bulldog Brawl, Ronnie Suarez, Jacob McMillan and Jesse James SW Shootout.  He placed second at the Lone Survivor, third at the Trey Culotta and the Ken Cole, and fourth at the LACL.

The fourth seed, Brother Martin’s Ty Duncan, did not earn a starting job at 126 lbs. until the LACL, in which he placed fifth.  He started at 138 lbs. and fared well enough, placing second at the Raider 8, third at the Cinco Ranch Big 12, fourth at the Black Horse and fifth at the Gulf Coast Clash.  He won the Duplessis Invitational and the District 9-5A and placed fifth at the Trey Culotta.  In late December, he did have the win over Goodson at 126 lbs., but he also had two losses to Lavine and one to a Division II wrestler at 126 lbs.  At 132 lbs. and 138 lbs. he had three other losses.  Overall, Goodson's record merited the third-seed spot, placing Duncan as the fourth.

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Early Championship Rounds

R1: Marlon Gray (FNT) defeated Mason Edwards (MND) 15-7 MD, Rhett Hill (LO) defeated Enrique Rodriguez (GK) 9-1 MD

R1: (6) Collin Cusimano (StP) defeated Ephraim Craddock (StA) 11-5

R2: (5) Lucas Maneckshaw (EA) pinned Rhett Hill (LO) in 1:04

R2: (4) Ty Duncan (BM) pinned Leo Gonzalez (CHL) in 0:41, R2: (6) Collin Cusimano (StP) pinned Ferdie Laudumiey (JES) in 3:01

R2: (7) Treyven Gaspard (COM) defeated Cooper Davis (BR) 7-5 SV

R2: (2) Watts Goodson (CAT) pinned Timothy Marquette (MND) in 0:43

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Quarterfinals

Fifth-seeded Maneckshaw was injured in his quarterfinals match with Duncan and withdrew from the tournament.  Of the nine people who defeated Maneckshaw during the season only one, freshman Cole Gros of Dutchtown, did not place at the state championships.  One placed fourth in Division I.  The others were either state champions or runners-up in divisions I and II.  His "Lost To" list is a veritable "Who's Who" of good wrestlers.  Watch for him as a junior.

(1) Wiley Boudreaux (SS) defeated (8) Peyton Plunkett (PKY) 15-0 TF

(4) Ty Duncan (BM) defeated (5) Lucas Maneckshaw (EA) via an injury default

(3) Caleb Lavine (SH) defeated (6) Collin Cusimano (StP) 18-2 TF

(2) Watts Goodson (CAT) defeated (7) Treyven Gaspard COM) 4-1

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Semifinals

Boudreaux and Duncan had not met during the season and Duncan opened fast, taking an 8-2 lead into the very end of the second period before Boudreaux scored a reversal.  Trailing 8-4 Boudreaux came closer in the third period with a reversal, reducing Duncan's lead to two-points.  Duncan escaped, and Boudreaux took him down again, but did not have time to score another takedown after letting Duncan go, giving the Crusader a 10-8 win.

Goodson’s wins over Lavine were via 14-5 and 8-5 scores.  This one was as close as their last one, but Goodson basically shut-out the freshman by scoring three points in the second period, which would be all he required in a 5-2 win.

(4) Ty Duncan (BM) defeated (1) Wiley Boudreaux (SS) 10-8

(2) Watts Goodson (CAT) defeated (3) Caleb Lavine (SH) 5-2

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Consolation Rounds

The Grace King senior Rodriguez and the Jesuit senior Laudumiey had met twice before, and neither worked out well for the Blue Jay.  The third meeting did not either, although it was the closest of all three matches.

C2: Enrique Rodriguez (GK) defeated Ferdie Laudumiey (JES)  6-3, Champ Hutchinson (DUT) pinned Henry Mulvihill (HC) in 0:28

C2: Leo Gonzales (CHL) pinned Kasen Moody (SUL) 1:59

C3: Enrique Rodriguez (GK) defeated Champ Hutchinson (DUT) 6-1

It was the sixth-seeded Cusimano who gave up the second spot on the podium to the unseeded masses.  (The fifth seed, Lucas Maneckshaw, had to retire from the tournament after an injury in the quarterfinals.)  The junior Crusader junior fell to #8 Treyven Gaspard, a Comeaux senior, 7-0.

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Championship Consolation Rounds

The consolation finals was “déjà vu” for Lavine, for the fourth time.  His other three meetings with Boudreaux ended in 9-4, 24-10 MD and 10-2 MD losses.  After taking 4:27 to score a 17-2 TF in the CSFs against Gaspard, Boudreaux may well have thought it was time for this season to end and 2022-23 to begin.  Hence the fall in 2:11 this time over Lavine.  The Bronco freshman should take pride in his 4-2 record in his first state championships.  His two pins took 2:01.  His decisions took longer, 9:21, but he outscored his opponents 37-5 in those two technical falls.

Gaspard dispatched with Plunkett and ended his high school wrestling career on a high note.  Plunkett, as the eighth seed, was not even supposed to be there.  He knocked off the senior Rodriguez to get there, and he has one more state championship to go.

(1) Wiley Boudreaux (SS) pinned (3) Caleb Lavine (SH) in 2:11 to place 3rd

(7) Treyven Gaspard (COM) pinned (8) Peyton Plunket (PKY) in 4:17 to place 5th

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Finals

Duncan was 2-0 over Goodson dating back to the 2020 Zachary Big Horse Open, in which Duncan defeated Goodson in the finals 6-2. 

Duncan took an early 4-1 lead, which might have been a bit disconcerting to Goodson, as that was the final score of their previous match.  (For 26 seconds it was also Duncan’s lead at the 2020 Big Horse finals.)  Goodson was not fazed, however, as he added an escape and a takedown to knot the first period at 4-4.  It took 1:43 for Duncan to earn an escape point in the second period, but his lead lasted only 15 seconds.  Goodson responded with a takedown, taking a 6-5 lead, with two seconds remaining.  Goodson escaped quickly in the third to take a 7-5 lead, but after that, neither wrestler could even stall enough to concede a point to the other.  Duncan needed a takedown to win, but Goodson would not allow it.  Both are juniors, so we may see them pitted against each other next season.

(2) Watts Goodson (CAT) defeated (4) Ty Duncan (BM) 7-5

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