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Defending Division II state champion Teurlings Catholic befuddled the competition with new singlets, and some pretty good wrestling.  Five Rebels won championships and two others placed second.  Team scores were not kept, but no other teams came close to matching the success of the Rebels.

The Rebel championships started at 106 lbs. with Alex Rojas.  Brennan Boyer, at 132 lbs., started a three in-a-row run as his win was immediately replicated by Ethan Boudreaux and Brandt Babineaux.  Braedon Simoneaux won the fifth Rebel title at 170 lbs.  Brennan Romero, Pike Landry and Noah Simoneaux placed second, while Hudson Sharon placed third and Daniel Daspit and Gabe Delhomme placed fourth.

East Ascension had three winners in Jesse Maneckshaw, Gabriel Bonin and Jacob Schexnaydre,  Jamarcus Thomas placed second and Lucas Maneckshaw third for the Spartans.

Sam Houston's Tyson Roach and Peyton Miller won titles, as did Kaiden Triche of Rummel, Gunner Guidry of host Holy Cross, James Nero of Shaw and David Billiot of John Ehret.

A true dean of Louisiana high school wrestling, Thomas Jefferson and former John Ehret coach and wrestler Dean Tessitore (LEFT) gets his photo on the website.  OK, he asked for it. The Rummel kids (RIGHT) also asked for a photo to be published, so the editor must have been in his "happy place."  (Left to right: Zach Truxillo, Gavin Ohlmeyer, Nathan Hester and Jake Brandstetter)

Other notables at the event were Holy Cross state champions Michael Lundin and Charles Sauerwin, former holy Cross coach Eric Desormeaux, Acadiana's Raven Guidry and state champion Chris Satchell of Sam Houston.  Two-time state champion John Paul Travasos was also there, but was clad in St. Thomas More gear, which is just too soon to contemplate.

Some of the coverage of this event is sparse, at best.  Between printing a set of brackets before leaving his house, and arriving at Holy Cross, the editor found the brackets had changed significantly.  It was nice that five mats were used in one gym, but reading the matches list on the large video display is not something I can do very readily (OK - I can't read!), so when there is no discernable "rhyme or reason" to the order in which matches are held, well, it is just a photographic crapshoot. 

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