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Friday at the Louisiana Classic

December 16th, 2026| Written by: Staff writer

The 53rd Louisiana Classic wrestling tournament began Friday afternoon at the Lamar-Dixon EXPO Center in Gonzales, Louisiana. Friday was a "boys only" event. The girls 3rd Louisiana Classic begins on Sunday.

WRONG, WRONG, WRONG! THE WRITER CANNOT READ! THE GIRLS WRESTLED ON FRIDAY, AS WELL.

All we can glean after the quarterfinals is the number of seeds who were upset through the quarterfinals. The team scores count after the first day of wrestling, but it can change dramatically after the semifinals are completed and the first few consolation rounds have been completed. It is possible that a wrestler who loses his bid for a quarterfinal match can score more team points than a champion should he continue on Saturday to place third.

What can be interesting is to see how many upsets occur through the quarterfinals. I will only list those seeded fourth and higher for this exercise. NS means "Not Seeded in the top-eight."John Thiele"

Weight	Winner	Loser	Score	Notes
106	NS Jace Blechler Niceville, FL	#4 Lee Gervais Holy Cross	19-4 TF	Blechler lost to #5 Landon Deleon of At. Amant 10-9 in the quarterfinals.
113	NS John Thiele Rummel	#2 Ty Bowser Sulphur	7-2
144	#6 Alex Amedee East Ascension	#3 Quinn McDermott Brother Martin	3:15
150	#5 Dominic Ruggieri Southside	#4 Dylan Ricks Brusly	7:51
165	NS Alexander Hebert St. Paul	#4 Kaleb Sonnier Teurlings Catholic	5:30
285	#5 Javier Hollis Slidell	#4 Jace Schmidt Niceville, FL	1-0
285	NS Gage Brown St. Paul	#2 Aiden Anderson Baton Rouge	3:51
285	NS Gage Brown St. Paul	#7 Landon Kelley East Ascension	0:47

[7:50 p.m.]

I am writing this as the quarterfinals are taking place. But I am going to go out-on-a-limb and say Catholic will be in the lead before the semifinals start, and may very well clinch the title before the finals matches start.

Team Scores after Friday's Matches

[9:56 p.m.]

Place	School	Points	Place	School	Points
1	Jesuit	168	6	St. Paul	135.5
2	Catholic	164	7	Teurlings Catholic	131
3	Holy Cross	158	8	Rummel	127
T-4	Brother Martin	152.5	9	St. Amant	118
T-4	St. Thomas More	152.5	10	Est Ascension	96

OK, fine. I went out-on-a-limb and fell out of the tree.

Re the semifinals matchups:

Jesuit has six semifinalists and is favored in one of them;

Catholic has five semifinalists and is favored in four of them;

Holy Cross has six semifinalists and is favored in two of them;

Brother Martin has three semifinalists and is favored in all of them.

Being favored in four of their six semifinals matches might make the Bears the champions before the finals start, if the non-favored semifinalists from Jesuit, Holy Cross and Brother Martin all do what is expected by the seeding committee (i.e., lose).

However, like almost all tournaments do, the winning points will be scored in the consolation rounds re advancement points and bonus points scored.

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