Fini

Place	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th
Podium
Name	Marc Martinez	Spencer Hughes	Hector Barraza	Alexzander Zaunbrecher	Parker Fontenot	Thomas Bean
School	Brusly	De la Salle	St. Michael	Kaplan	Basile	Evangel
Seed	1	2	6	3	4	5
Class	12	11	12	12	10	11
Final Record	18-0	25-9	9-6	11-6	12-7	5-4

Final records include Louisiana losses but all wins

Weight Class Synopsis

By December 5^th Marc Martinez of Brusly had amassed a 15-0 record which included wins over Jaden Shirley of St. Amant (9-7 SV) and Happy Butler of Catholic (fall in 1:03).  In fact, he had not wrestled a Division III opponent.  He was definitely seeded in the right place.

So was De la Salle junior Spencer Hughes.  Hughes had upset defending Division II state champion Ryder Hawley in the first round of the Louisiana Classic, and placed third at the Brusly Invitational, fourth at the Spartan Invitational and eighth at the Trey Culotta Invitational.  His one loss in Division III was to Basile’s Ethan Langley, but Langley injured himself on January 16^th and was unable to participate in the state championships.

 The rest of the top-six seeds were fine, even though the wrestlers might have thought otherwise.  Sixth-seeded Hector Barraza of St. Michael lost to #3 Alexzander Zaunbrecher of Church Point via a 4:27 pin in the quarterfinals, but he worked his way back to a rematch with Zaunbrecher in the consolation finals.  In doing so he defeated third seed Parker Fontenot of Basile 6-5, avenging a loss to Fontenot at the Jacob McMillan Memorial.  That pitted Zaunbrecher against fifth-seeded Thomas Bean of Evangel for the second time in the tournament.  Fontenot won the first match via an 18-4 Major Decision and won the last one via a 17-1 Technical Fall.

Back to Top

Quarterfinals

(1) Marc Martinez (BRU) pinned Logan Lyons (CP) in 1:31

(4) Parker Fontenot (BAS) defeated (5) Logan Bean (EVA) 18-4 MD

(3) Alexzander Zaunbrecher (KAP) pinned (6) Hector Barraza (StM) in 4:27

(2) Spencer Hughes (DLS) defeated (7) James Reina (StL) 15-1 MD

Back to Top

Semifinals

(1) Marc Martinez (BRU) pinned (4) Parker FONTenot (BAS) in 2:22

(2) Spencer Hughes (DLS) defeated (3) Alexzander Zaunbrecher (KAP) 4-2

Back to Top

Championship Consolation Rounds

(6) Hecor Barraza (StM) avenged a quarterfinals loss by defeating (3) Alexzander Zaunbrecher (KAP) 10-5 to place 3rd

(4) Parker Fontenot (BAS) defeated (5) Thomas Bean (EVA) via a 17-1 Technical Fall to place 5th

Back to Top

Finals

Top-seeded Marc Martinez of Brusly pinned second seed Spencer Hughes of De la Salle in 3:02   Martinez dominated Hughes in the finals.  He scored 11 points in the first period via a takedown followed by a trio of three-point nearfalls.  Hughes felt a throw was the only way to get back into the match, so he chose to start the second period standing.  To no avail, though, as Martinez took him down in 18 seconds and used a bar-arm half-nelson to score a fall in 3:02.

Back to Top