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They battled for first and second place all day on Saturday and after the semifinals Jesuit led Teurlings Catholic by three points.  By the time the finals started the score was tied at 251.5.  Jesuit took a five-point lead after a 14-6 MD finals win by Michael Barnett.  That was negated by five points scored by Alex Rozas over Jesuit's Bodi Harris vi a 10-0 win at 120 lbs..  With the scored tied again at 256.5 the Rebels took a four-point lead after Brandt Babineaux defeated the Blue Jays' Wyatt Mire 7-4.  That lead increased to eight points after a 165 lbs. win by the Rebels' Braedon Simoneaux over Jesuit's Arthur Schott.

After the 165 lbs. match the Rebels had only two finalists remaining.  The Blue Jays had three.  At 175 lbs. Rebel freshman Carter Macha could have at least forced a tie with Jesuit at the end if he won his match against Dutchtown's William Mathis.  Early in the match it was evident that this match would not end by a regular decision.  For all practicing purposes it was a throw-and-roll fest, won by Mathis via a fall in 5:20.  That left Jesuit with three finalists and Teurlings with only one.  Jesuit's Cameron Himel has had a great season for the Blue Jays, with a now 23-4 record (with two losses coming from teammate Jackson Calderaro), but his finals opponent, 44-0 Jacob Clementi, had defeated him 15-5 MD last Saturday evening.  This time Clement pinned Himel in 1:53.  The Rebels still led by eight points.

Jesuit really did not care about Himel's loss re how the tournament would finish.  They had some pretty heavy anchors in the last two matches who were quite capable of tying the team championship score with regular decisions.  The Rebels' last hope was in Division II runner-up Kendra James against Division I runner-up Jackson Calderaro of Jesuit.   Calderaro played it "close to the vest" with a 2-0 lead after the first period, which he used to judge the talent of the Rebel senior.  Calderaro judged it well and scored a fall over James in 2:53.

Jesuit was now only two points behind the Rebels, and had they been only one, three, four or five points ahead of Jesuit, no lead can be considered safe when one's opponent is the two-time LHSAA State champion ad ranked in the top 10 in the nation.  That would be Jesuit Senior Spencer Lanosga, and his opponent, Gabriel Millbern of Walker, could only last so long with the Blue Jay before getting pinned.  It took Lanosga 49 seconds to score the fall and thus scoring six more team points.  Two were used to make up the deficit behind Teurlings Catholic.  The remaining four points were for the team championship.

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Final Team Points

Champions and Runner-ups

Tyson Roach of Same Houston and William Mathis of Dutchtown won Outstanding Wrestler awards.  Spencer Lanosga

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