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Place	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th
Podium					No Photo Available
Name	John Drake	Trey Jeffries	Brennan Kass	Denarius Robinson	Anphrony Guillory	Billy Broom
School	John Curtis	South Beauregard	Church Point	Brusly	Basile	Bossier
Seed	1	3	2	6	5	NS
Class	12	12	12	11	11	12
Final Record	9-2	6-2	9-2	9-4	6-12	8-7

Final records include Louisiana losses but all wins

Weight Class Synopsis

John Curtis senior John Drake may not have had enough mat time this season to pose a greater risk to Division I and Division II notable 285 lbs. opponents, but he had all he needed to "lock-up" the top seed in the Division III state championships.  His two losses were to eventual Division I state champion Gavin Soniat of East Ascension and Division I third-place winner Christian Mannino of Catholic (Drake defeated Mannino last season).  He really just needed two matches, both of which he got at the Brusly Invitational when, in the semifinals, he pinned South Beauregard's Trey Jeffries in 2:56, and then in the finals when he pinned Brennan Cass of Church Point in 3:18.  The only losses Jeffries and Kass had were to Drake in that event, and because Kass placed received the better seed.

The seeding of Kass and Jeffries, no matter which were second or third, meant that, barring any upsets, those two would meet in the semifinals.  They did, and it was Jeffries prevailing by a fall in 4:47.

Kass ended up in third after a tough 3-2 match with (6) Denarious Robinson of Brusly.  Jackson was ousted from the placement matches by unseeded Billy Broom, a senor from Bossier.  Broom lost in 4:44 to Basile's (5) Anphrony Guillory in the match for 5-th place.

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Quarterfinals

(1) John Drake (JC) defeated Billy Broom (BOS) via a 10-0 major decision

(5) Anphrony Guillory (BAS) pinned (4) Kennith Jackson, III (DLS) in 2:42

(3) Trey Jeffries (SB) pinned (6) Denarius Robinson (BRU) in 3:18

(2) Brennan Kass (CP) pinned Ryan Fobbs (ERA) in 1:13

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Semifinals

(1) John Drake (JC) pinned (5) Anphrony Guillory (BAS) in 4:52

(3) Trey Jeffries (SB) pinned (2) Brennan Kass (CP) in 5:29

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Championship Consolation Rounds

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Finals

John Curtis' top-seed John Drake pinned South Beauregard's third-seeded Trey Jeffries in 2:25   Senior John Drake, after placing third, fifth and third in previous state championships, walked through the competition with a fall in 1:04, a 10-0 major decision and falls in 4:52 and 2:25 to win the Patriots' first individual championship since Spencer Lemoine in 2013.

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