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So, around noon on Wednesday I finally decided how I would write a brief state championship recap.  I decided to do so in the time it took to play but just listen to Helter Skelter, one of the more uplifting movies from 1976, on Amazon Prime.  Three hours and nine pages in Word later, I thought, since I already have Amazon Prime on my next-to-desk television, I had not listened to Deadpool in months.  Then it was about 5 p.m. which meant a break for CNN's The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer, and then at 5:30 the ABC Evening News with David Muir to see what CNN had gotten wrong.  Then there was a little dinner with my mother as we watched JEOPARDY! and a little before 7 p.m. I was right back here.  Looking at the Word document, seeing that I was only halfway through brief descriptions of Division II finals matches, and knowing that even brief descriptions of Division II and III matches would require a little more research that Division I matches, I decided trying to finish would be lunacy.  So I decided I would try to placate readers with some photos I found.  Avengers: Endgame and a half-hour of The Avengers later, I have what you see below this.

I really want to finish this because I have yet to read what anyone else wrote about the tournament.  I try not to do that so as not to be tempted by the acclaimed skills of some or the grammatical laziness of others.  The latter, of course, may be excused if they are "Rod & Cone Impaired."  I admit the photos lean a little on the Division I side, but I took the majority of those photos so I had an idea of what was available.  I cannot say the same yet for the Division II and III finals photos.  As for other photos taken on Friday, well, "three x quantum physics = coelacanth." 

D1 106 lbs. Finals: 1) Samuel Favaza of Fontainebleau shortly before he scores a fall over Michael Barnett of Jesuit 2) To say neither wrestler was not emotional afterwards would be folly.  Barnett shows the bloodied face of a warrior 3) Favaza realizes that now, over the beautiful Fontainebleau crest on his singlet, there is a target for next season.

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D1 145 lbs. Finals: Kent Burandt gets a photo for every year he has been in a Division I finals match.  Unfortunately, in those years he did not learn (or more likely care) where the camera was while he was wrestling.  (Just fair warning before the completed state article is published!)

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D1 120 lbs.: Watts Goodson get two photos for his second awesome state finals match, even though he came up a point short.  Landon Reaux was to get three photos, but I inexplicitly missed one.

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D1 182 lbs.: Thomas Domangue gets two, representing each of his two titles.

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D2 113 lbs.  Rummel's Kaiden Triche exhibits three faces of "Mission Accomplished."

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D2 126 lbs.: Sam Houston's Tyson Roach before the match and near the end.  And as disappointing as the end of that match must have been for him, one should know smiles do not stay off of Brennan Boyer's face for long.

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D2 152 lbs.: After a third-place finish in 2021 and a runner-up finish last season, Hudson Sharon knew exactly where the cameras were.

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D3 106 lbs.: Someone should let Master Judice know that 0:26 does not allow for a lot of action photographs.

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D3 113 lbs.: De la Salle's Dylan Duvernay celebrates his second state championship.

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D3 220 lbs.: Dunham's James Baldwin finally gets his title.

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Evangel's Michael Brame, II did not know where the camera was.

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