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Brame upsets top-seeded Tassin
LHSAA State Wrestling Tournament
Division III - 126 Pounds
August 20th, 2023| Written by: Staff Writer





 

Place 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th
Podium
Name Michael Brame, II Hayden Tassin Jayden Guillory Evan Harding Grant Habertz Dylan Brown
School Evangel Shaw Basile St. Michael St. Louis De la Salle
Seed 2 1 3 4 5 7
Record 47-3 34-11 22-19 21-19 19-12 11-6
Class 11 12 12 12 10 10

Evangel junior Michael Brame, II only lost to four Louisiana wrestlers this season.  Jesuit's Chase Haydel (D1 3rd), Antonio Barraza (D3 1st) North Desoto's Nathan Adams (D2 4th) and Parkway's Christopher Bacot, who did not compete at the state championships.  He only won two tournaments prior to the state tournament.  One was in Arkansas and the other in Texas.  He finished third at the Riot on the Red, the Lone Survivor, the Jimmy Vidrine Division III and the North Louisiana Regionals. 

A match that the editor does not count as a loss was an injury default to Shaw's Hayden Tassin.  That is one reason why Tassin was seeded first in the weight class despite having 10 losses.  Tassin won the Jacob McMillan, placed fourth at the Tiger Invitational and sixth at the Ken Cole.  He also defeated Barraza and, in general, faced stiffer competition than Brame did.   

Early Championship Rounds

R1: (8) Kairan Smith (JC) pinned Camden Litton (StMRY) in 3:07
R1: (4) Evan Harding (StM) pinned Ethan Brechnel (TJ) in 0:32

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Quarterfinals

(4) Evan Harding (StM) defeated (5) Grant Habertz (StL) 10-8 SV
(3) Jay Guillory (BAS) pinned (6) Coy Terro (KAP) in 2:59
(2) Michael Brame (EVA) pinned (7) Dylan Brown (DLS) in 3:29

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Semifinals

(1) Hayden Tassin (SHW) pinned (4) Evan Harding (StL) in 1:12
(2) Michael Brame, II (EVA) defeated (3) Jay Guillory (BAS) 8-3

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Consolation Rounds

C2: (7) Dylan Brown (DLS) pinned Camden Litton (StMRY) in 1:38
C2: (6) Coy Terro (KAP) pinned Ethan Brechtel (TJ) in 4:18
C2: (5) Grant Habertz (StL) pinned Joshua Bertuglia (HAY) in 4:02
C2: Jackson Carter (ROS) defeated (8) Kairan Smith (JC) 11-8

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Championship Consolation Rounds

(3) Jay Guillory (BAS) defeated (4) Evan Harding (StM) 7-1  to place 3rd
(5) Grant Habertz (StL) pinned (7) Dylan Brown (DLS) in 3:13  to place 5th

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Finals

(2) Michael Brame, II of Evangel pinned (1) Hayden Tassin of Shaw in 4:38
Brame scored the first takedown, but Tassin escaped and scored his own takedown to take a 3-2 lead after the first two minutes.  Brame, however, owned the second two minutes 4-1.  In the third period Brame scored two takedowns after two Tassin escapes - all within 38 seconds.  Tassin appeared to be injured after the second takedown , but the Eagle senior is not one to quit due to some minor, or major, discomfort.  He kept wrestling, but Brame persisted and end up recording a fall in 4:38.

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