Status: Fini

Brother Martin narrowly defeated the Dragons of Jefferson High School of Georgia 29-29 via tie-breaking criteria (it took eight criteria to break the tie – seven more and it would have been a coin toss) to win their first Bayou Duals championship.

Deep South Bayou Duals Champions The Brother Martin Crusaders (photo by Andrew Valenti - NOLA.com)	Deep South Bayou Duals Runners-up The Jefferson, GA Dragons

 Gilmore County of Georgia placed third with a 48-24 win over Missouri’s Plate County High School.  Jesuit, despite a quarterfinal win over Gilmer County, place fifth by defeating North Forsythe, GA 44-27.  Wrightstown High School of Wisconsin denied Baton Rouge Catholic of a team trophy, when they defeated the Bears 33-25 to place seventh.

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Brother Martin's Paul Klein was recognized as the Outstanding Wrestler of the lower weight classes.  Caleb Little of Jefferson won the equivalent in the high weight classes Paul Klein Brother Martin's 132 lbs. sensation Caleb Little 7-0 for Jefferson at 160 lbs.

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Brusly’s Trevor Schermer

Brusly’s Trevor Schermer exercised two demons on Saturday.  The three-time defending Division III state champion first defeated Catholic’s defending Division I state champion James Claitor 5-4, handing Claitor his first loss to a Louisiana wrestler since the 2011-12 season.  A little later, he pinned Rummel’s 2013 Division I runner-up Rick Lacava in 3:02.  Claitor defeated Schermer 6-4 at the Catholic Duals on December 7th, handing Schermer his second loss on the season (his first was to a Florida opponent).  Last year Lacava recorded two wins over Schermer – 5-2 in the Sam Sara finals and 11-4 at the Louisiana Classic.  Schermer’s wins should catapult him to the top seed position for the Louisiana Classic in three weeks. Only one Panther wrestler has won the LA Classic/Lee High Invitational.  That was Virnado Woods, who won the 171 lbs. championship in 1991.  Schermer was 6-0 on the weekend.

Schermer's last second reversal vs. Catholic's James Claitor Schermer just prior to scoring a fall over Lacava.

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Klein’s drought ends

Paul Klein has been in a bit of a slump.  Of course, for Klein, (after already winning two Division I state championships) that just means it had been 13 days since he won an Outstanding Wrestler award.  That was rectified at this event.  Though he only wrestled four matches, he had a first round pin, two major decisions and a technical fall.  Klein, a junior, has already graduated to the Louisiana Wrestling News’ highest honor – FREAK OF NATURE.  Klein has won OW awards at the Mandeville and Spartan opens and the Trygg Memorial.

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Worthwhile trip for Wisconsin’s Wrightstown

The Wrightstown Tigers placed seventh by defeating Catholic 33-26, to pick up the last team trophy.  Hopefully that made the 21-hour trip worth taking. A team trophy must have made the trip bearable, rather than just driving 21 hours to... ...this.

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Live Oak over Teurlings Catholic

The two favorites to battle for the Division II state team crown met for the first and probably only time this season in a dual meet format.  Live Oak won six of the 11 matches wrestled.  Technical falls by Colt Olinde and Jacob Chenevert, pins by Brody Bonura, Nick Simoneaux and Jonathan Sosa, and a major decision by Cody Hill over Tristan Lee propelled the Eagles to a 44-30 win.  Teurlings had pins by Travis Santiago and Brock Bonin, a technical fall by Dakota Hebert and a major decision by Brennan Trosclair. Live Oak benefitted the most by forfeits, receiving two of the three (one being a medical forfeit when Brennan Webb was injured).  That netted the Eagles six points, without which the Eagles would have earned only a two point victory (that is if Live Oak won two of the three matches and all counted for the same amount of team points).  Hence, it was a much closer match than the final score indicated, and that should lead to a great state championship.

Olinde over Hebert 22-7. Chenevert over Kilchrist 17-2. Bonin over Alphonso in 2:50. Live Oak's Brennan Webb was ahead 3-0 before he injured his should, resulting in a medical forfeit.

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Cody Hill remains undefeated at the Deep South Bayou Duals

This year’s Deep South Bayou Duals was the last for Live Oak senior Cody Hill.  But, as he did last year and two years ago at the event, he went through his matches without a single loss en route to a 23-0 lifetime record at the event.

Cody Hill defeated Division II rival Tristan Lee for the second time this season, this time by a major 15-7 decision.

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Jesuit's "Young Guns"

Jesuit junior Austin Pfister (photo: left) competed on the Jesuit-B team and put up a stellar record.  He won all eight of the matches in which he competed.  He pinned five opponents, had a technical fall (15 point lead) over another and won an 8-6 match over the returning Division II state champion Jacob Chenevert of Live Oak.  (Now, if someone is miffed about not being singled out after posting a similar record, well, nepotism happens – Austin’s aunt is a lady the editor knows and who is good friends with the editor’s sister.)

Jesuit has a plethora of young wrestlers who may make an impact at this year's state championships, and will certainly in 2015.  Among them are (with their DSBD records): On the Jesuit-B team: Brody Martin-106-junior (5-0;) Austin Ashburn-106-sophomore (3-0); Austin Pfister-113-junior (8-0); Jordan Giewat-120-freeshman (4-0);Max Grosch-126-junior (7-1). On the Jesuit varsity team: Joseph Dupre-113-junior (6-2); Jake Rando-126-freshman (6-2); Jake Rovira-132-junior (6-2)

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The Pickrens of South Walton

South Walton High School of Santa Rosa Beach, Florida, are becoming regulars on the Louisiana wrestling circuit.  Freshman William (106 lbs.) and junior Cody (145 lbs.) both won the Trygg Memorial (Cody also placed second in 2012 to Rummel's Matt Calcote). 

William posted a 6-2 record which included an impressive 12-0 major decision over Rummel's Robert Fairchild.  (Above, Pickren takes care of Baton Rouge's Khoa Bui.)	Cody was 6-1, only losing to Rummel's Rick Lacava by two points while pinning five others and scoring a technical fall.

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Notable LA Records

Several Louisiana wrestlers had a very good weekend.  Those who posted undefeated records (with a minimum of four matches actually wrestled - no forfeits counted) were:

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