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	Rocco Horvath	Kade Moran	Richard Carroll	Ian Bohn	Tyler Addison	Jacobi Clement
School	Brother Martin	Baton Rouge	Catholic	Jesuit	Dutchtown	East Ascension
Seed	1	2	4	5	3	NS
Class	12	12	12	12	12	10
Final Record*	44-0	27-4	33-6	9-6	20-6	33-16

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

Last season, Brother Martin’s Rocco Horvath wanted the challenge of St. Paul defending Division I state champion Peyton Ward.  An 8-4 loss to Ward in the Louisiana Classic did not dissuade him of that goal, yet it did render him a runner-up finish to Ward in Division I. 

This season, Horvath was one from whom to stay away.  Prior to the state championships he was 39-0.  OK, he lost one match 5-3 in the finals of the Trey Culotta, but that was to Aiden Bowers of Christian Brothers of Tennessee.  Horvath defeated Bowers 6-2 17 days earlier in the Black Horse finals.  But very few Louisiana wrestlers lasted six minutes with the Crusader senior.  His closest match was 7-2.  In the state championships his closest match was a 12-4 MD in the semifinals. 

His older brother Riley placed second in 2020.  Rocco did that in 2021 and won this year.  That leaves brother Rory, who will be a sophomore this year, to whom Rocco will pass the Horvath torch.  Rory had a very impressive freshman year and can use his last three years to trounce his brothers’ accomplishments.

Seeding Synopsis

At 39-0 Rocco Horvath was the obvious first seed.  He won the Raider 8, the Cinco Ranch Big 12, the Gulf Coast Clash and the Black Horse before falling to Bowers at the Trey Culotta (oddly, that was the second straight Culotta finals Horvath lost to Bowers, but the Christian Brothers kid is good – he won Tennessee state championships later in both years).  He won the LACL with a finals pin in 58 seconds, and then he won the District 9-5A championship.  At the Gulf Coast Clash he beat Alabama state champions Aden Knight (5A-6A) and Carson Freeman (7A).  Louisiana state champions stayed away from Horvath, but he did beat De la Salle’s Luke Robertson (D2 2^nd x2) twice, #3 seed Tyler Addison of Dutchtown twice, #4 Richard Carroll of Catholic (D1 3rd) and #5 Ian Bohn of Jesuit (D1 4th).  He had not met #2 Kade Moran of Baton Rouge (D1 2nd) yet, but Moran, while seeded higher, was 0-2 versus Carroll.  The intrigue (albeit unknown at the time) of the 160 lbs. Division I finals match was not the same at 170 lbs.

Baton Rouge senior Kade Moran had a particularly good season.  His only losses were the two to Carroll (both SV matches) and one to Santos Ramos (D1 2^nd) of East Ascension.  He won the Warrior Open, the Spartan Invitational, the Big Horse and the Greater Baton Rouge Championships, defeating Carroll in 5:26 in the semifinals and Addison in 2:59 in the finals.  Moran was a D1 170 lbs. runner-up to East Ascension’s Brad Mahoney in 2021.

Addison was the third seed.  He made the finals of the LACL, the Ken Cole and the GBRs, losing to Horvath, Shaw’s Zalen Wilson (D2 2nd) and Moran, respectively.  He owned a 9-3 win over Carroll, which gave him the #3 seeding spot.  Carroll was seeded fourth.  His only losses came from East Ascension’s Corey Holmes (D1 3rd) at 182 lbs., Horvath, Addison, Wilson and Moran.  He won the Brusly 8, placed second in the GBRs and third at the Hoover Invitational. 

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Early Championship Rounds

R1: (1) Rocco Horvath (BM) pinned Zach Chaney (LO) in 1:21, R1: Colin Pierre (COM) pinned Major McPherson (PKY) in 1:21

R1: (3) Tyler Addison (DUT) pinned Kwamme Thompson (CHL) in 1:24, R2: Colin Pierre (COM) pinned Luke Berg (DST) in 3:12

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Quarterfinals

Again, the seeds behaved as expected in the quarterfinals…

(1) Rocco Horvath (BM) pinned (8) Colin Pierre (COM) in 1:24

(4) Richard Carroll (CAT) pinned (5) Ian Bohn (JES) in 2:17

(3) Tyler Addison (DUT) pinned (6) Jared Paulino (StP) in 3:14

(2) Kade Moran (BR) pinned Kaiden Romien (SS) in 1:24

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Semifinals

…and in the semifinals.  Carroll came a point closer to Horvath than on December 1st (10-1 MD) and Moran defeated Addison in half the time it took to do so in the GBR finals (2:59).

(1) Rocco Horvath (BM) defeated (4) Richard Carroll (CAT) 12-4 MD

(2) Kade Moran (BR) pinned (3) Tyler Addison (DUT) in 1:24

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Consolation Rounds

East Ascension sophomore Jacobi Clement was not formally invited to the medal rounds via seeding, so he crashed it.  He won his first-round match and then fell to Horvath.  In the consolation matches, he won four straight matches before falling to Catholic's Carroll in the CSFs. 

C2: Titus Galloway (CEN) pinned Haseeb Rana (GK) in 4:36

C2: Luke Berg (DST) defeated Brendon Brooks (AIR) 15-7 MD

C3: Loukas Naquin (TER) pinned Zach Chaney (LO) in 2:15

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Championship Consolation Rounds

The #5 Bohn defeated #3 Addison in 5:37 to setup a rematch with Carroll, who advanced past Clement in the CSFs in 3:57.  Carroll defeated Bohn once during the season and pinned him in 3:17 in the quarterfinals.    This time was little different as Carroll only required 3:00 to win third.  Bohn was only 5-4 when he was called to replace sophomore Patrick Matthews. 

The senior Griffin had little trouble with the sophomore Spartan in the match for fifth-place.

(4) Richard Carroll (CAT) pinned (5) Ian Bohn (JES) in 3:00 to place 3rd

(3) Tyler Addison (DUT) pinned Jacobi Clement (EA) in 0:25 to place 5th

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Finals

This time there was a gap between the first and all other seeds.  Horvath was relentless against Moran, scoring five points in the first period and 10 in the second.  Moran was only allowed a reversal and an unidentified (via TrackWrestling) point before Horvath ended the match with a third-period fall.

(1) Rocco Horvath (BM) pinned (2) Kade Moran (BR) in 5:13

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