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Redditt wins Brusly's only championship, with an Outstanding Wrestler award as lagniappe |
LHSAA State Wrestling Tournament |
Division III, 113 Pounds |
March 153rd, 2022 | Written by: CAT |
Seeding Synopsis | Early Championship Rounds | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Consolation Rounds | 3rd and 5th | Finals |
* Records include all wins but only losses to Louisiana wrestlers. Forfeits and defaults are not counted.
St.
Louis’ defending Division III state champion and top-seeded Luke Caballero and
Brusly’s second-seeded Cameron Redditt, had markedly different records prior to
the Brusly Invitational finals.
Caballero was 16-3.
Redditt was
13-6.
The difference appeared to be
apparent in the Brusly finals as Caballero won handily via a 10-2 MD.
Redditt got better.
Defending Division III state champion and top-seeded Luke Caballero
and
Brusly’s second-seeded Cameron Redditt, had very different records going
back to the 2021 state championships.
There, at 106 lbs., Caballero upset top-seeded Preston Curtis of John
Curtis to win the Division III 106 lbs. title.
Redditt, then a freshman, finished one spot before the placing rounds.
In the 2021-22 season, Caballero was 16-3 upon reaching the Brusly
Invitational finals.
Redditt, upon
reaching that same finals match, was 13-6.
Caballero had won the Lakeshore Open and placed third in both the Griffin
Open and the Jacob McMillan Memorial.
His losses in those two events were to Ashton Sonnier
(D2 1st) and Brennan Romero
(D2 1st) of Teurlings Catholic, one a defending 2021 and one a soon-to-be 2022 Division II state
champion.
He also had a loss to
Tyson Roach, the soon-to-be Division I state champion.
Redditt had a loss to Sonnier and one to Division I fifth-place winner
Anthony Perez of Chalmette.
He
won the Brusly 8, but with a loss.
None of his other losses were to anyone who placed at the 2022 state
championships.
The difference
appeared to be apparent in the Brusly finals as Caballero won handily via a 10-2
MD.
After the Brusly Invitational things changed for Redditt.
The Panther sophomore won his next event, the Rayne Invitational, and placed fifth at
the Greater Baton Rouge Championships, sporting a 4-2 record.
Caballero did not place in his next event.
That, however, was the Louisiana Classic.
He followed that with a fifth-place finish at the Ken Cole.
He also won the Jesse James Southwest Shootout, and only one of his five
losses during the last month of the season were to someone who did not place in
Division I or Division II (and that was to a very good Christopher Strong of
Airline).
Yet at the Ken Cole he
defeated Walker’s Kye Karcher, to whom Redditt lost in the GBRs.
Nothing appeared to stand in the way of Caballero winning another state title. He was the #1 seed and Redditt was seeded second.
If a seeding argument were to be made it would have been whether Evangel’s
third-seeded Joseph Gilreath should have been seeded second rather than Redditt.
Against Division III opponents, Gilreath was 10-1 while Redditt was 5-3.
That might be explained re the 2022 Brusly Invitational results.
Redditt, before the event, had a 10-6 record against Louisiana
competition.
Gilreath’s Louisiana
record was 10-7.
The third seed was
13-13.
Yet Gilreath was in the top
of the bracket (seeded fifth), lost to Caballero, and placed third.
Redditt was given a bye into the semifinals, which he won prior to also
losing to the St. Louis state champion.
When no head-to-head results are available, placements in the same weight
class of a tournament determine the seeding.
The first of only two
championship bracket upsets occurred in the quarterfinals when #5 Colin Dalton
of Hannan defeated De la Salle’s #4 Dylan Brown 6-1.
Brown narrowly defeated Dalton via a Sudden Victory 11-9 score in the
consolation finals of the Brusly Invitational.
The Brusly Invitational paragraph above was of little consequence, however, as
Redditt and Gilreath met in the semifinals, a match won by Redditt 12-7.
Redditt, however, did not take a lead until less than 90 seconds remained
in the match, and did not take the lead for good until there were less than 40.
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(1) Luke Caballero (StL) pinned (5) Colin Dalton (HAN) in 3:10 | ||||||
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(2) Cameron Redditt (BRU) defeated (3) Joseph Gilreath (EVA) 12-7 |
Championship Consolation Rounds
If there was an upstart in
the weight class, it would be Basile’s #8 (albeit it is doubtful the weight
class was seeded that deep) Kye Smith.
He could be called an upstart just for being in eighth-grade.
Yet, after suffering a loss to Caballero in his first match, he defeated
a #4 and #6 seed to place fifth.
That may be considered wrestling beyond his years.
A match like the one against #4 Dylan Brown of De la Salle in the consolation quarterfinals, who
outscored him 9-4 in the final period of a 12-11 Smith win, certainly aids that
argument.
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(3) Joseph Gilreath (EVA) defeated (5) Colin Dalton (HAN) 10-4 to place 3rd | |||||
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(8) Kye Smith (BAS) pinned (6) Craig Miller (SBR) in 1:33 to place 5th |
This match was a far cry
from their only other match, a 10-2 MD win by Caballero in the Brusly
Invitational finals. Redditt did not give
Caballero a chance to do much of anything.
He scored a takedown in the first period, and scored another in the second
period after scoring an escape. He scored two more takedowns in the finals period.
He held Caballero to three escapes en route to a 9-3 win.
His efforts earned him the Division III Outstanding Wrestler award.
(2) Cameron Redditt (BRU) defeated (1) Luke Caballero (StL) 9-3 | ||||||||||||||||||
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