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Division I

The Catholic Bears were one of the teams that could benefit by Brother Martin-St. Paul shootout and a slew of "wildcards" from other school.  The Bears did just that.  On Saturday, however, that probably will not hold.  Catholic has five semifinalist and five wrestlers in the consolation rounds.  In two semifinals matches, at 132 and 285 the Bears wrestle lower seeds.  At 152, 160 and 170 they meet wrestlers seeded high than they are.

St. Paul has the most semifinalists with 10, and they still have two in the consolation matches.  In the semifinals they are higher seeded than their opponents at 106, 120, 152, 160 and 220, and are lower seeds at 126, 132, 138, 170 and 195.

The defending champion Crusaders have eight semifinalists.  At 113, 126, 132, 145, 195 they are seeded higher than their opponents.  At 106, 120, and 152 they are seeded lower.  The Crusaders have two wrestlers in the consolation brackets

Fifteen points behind Catholic, in fourth place, the Holy Cross Tigers have five semifinalists.  At 113 and 120 the top-seeded Frost twins will face two fifth seeds. At 106, 132, and 138 they will face higher seeds.  The Tigers have three wrestlers in the consolation rounds, so they cannot really afford any more mishaps.

Team Scores after Friday's Wrestling*

Seven of the semifinals matches are composed of one wrestler of a top-four team against another.  Those matched are in bold-faced type.

*    Weight classes 106, 132, 145, 160, 182 and 220 do not include one or two matches which will determine who the semifinals losers will compete against.  At 145 lbs. 4th-seeded Cameron Doyle, who was upset in his first match, will face St. Paul's Grant Vicknair, after Vicknair's quarterfinal loss.  At 182 Josh Sabadie of St. Paul will face Richard Cunningham of Covington.

If an edge goes to anyone, it probably leans toward St. Paul with their 10 semifinalists, of which five are seeded higher than their opponents.

There was one major upset in Division I.  At 160 lbs. Mason Massicot, the defending Division I state champion from Brother Martin, was upset by #8 seed Cameron Vaughns of C.E. Byrd 31 in the quarterfinals.  In his first consolation match he lost to Roman Davis of Mandeville 5-3.  Massicot handily took care of Vaughns 10-4 in the Trey Culotta.  While Davis went a very respectable 15-3 for the Skippers during the season and won the Billy Duplessis Invitational, he is not yet Massicot's caliber.  Massicot was injured at the Prep Slam on January 4th and did not return to the mats until the District 9-5A Championships, which he won, but he only wrestled one match, a 4-3 victory over Jesuit's Charlie Cyrus.  The valiant Crusader was certainly cleared by a doctor to compete, but his injury had something to do with fluid building up near his spine and which later affected his leg.  Unless someone put a gun to his favorite pet's head, I have to believe Massicot chose to compete and to do whatever he could for the Crusaders' cause, even if he could not be at his best.  It is also hard to come back after a month off when that month happens to be January.  He should be proud he tried this year, but always has his undefeated 2018-19 season to look upon.  The kid has guts and should be very proud of all of his wrestling achievements, including participating in the state championships.

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Division II

Teurlings Catholic took the day on Friday, out-distancing a surprising Rayne team by 20.5 points and favored North Desoto by 22 points.

Team Scores after Friday's Wrestling*

Teurlings Catholic has 10 semifinalists and seven are competing against lower seeds.  Rayne has four semifinalists and is higher seeded in three of them.  North Desoto has 10 semifinalists and eight are seeded higher than their opponents.  Head-to-head semifinals matches between wrestlers of the leading teams are in bold-faced type.

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Division III

Team Scores after Friday's Wrestling*

Basile has five top seeds in the semifinals and two other semifinalists seeded high than their opponents.  Two other semifinalists are lower seeds than their opponents.  Brusly has eight semifinalists with two top-seeds, one wrestler seeded higher than his opponent and four wrestlers seeded lower than their opponents.  Look for the Bearcats to distance themselves from the pack on Saturday.

Head-to-head semifinals matches between wrestlers of the leading teams are in bold-faced type.

The one major upset was at 145 lbs. when unseeded freshman Luke Robinson of De la Salle pinned top-seed Andrew Lynch of Church Point in 3:07.  Sixth-seeded Alexzander Zaunbrecher of Kaplan defeated #3 Ethan Langley of Basile in a close 6-5 match.  Another sixth-seed to pull and upset was De la Salle's Jason Krail, who pinned Thomas Jefferson's their-seeded Carlos Flores in 0:59 at 160 lbs.  At 182 lbs. the same thing happened when #6 Joseph Belcher of St. Louis pinned #3 Aaron Couty of Brusly in 4:40.  

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