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Place	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th
Podium
Name	Landry Barker	Gabriel Bonin	Landen Carroll	William Mathis	Sam Boulet	Samuel Riles
School	St. Paul	East Ascension	Covington	Dutchtown	Catholic	Brother Martin
Seed	1	2	5	4	3	6
Record	40-0	54-11	37-9	35-7	16-5	48-9
Class	12	12	12	11	12	12

Louisiana, Florida, Georgia, Alabama - defending Division I state champion Landry Barker did not care.  He went through all of his opponents with relative ease en route to a perfect 40-0 record.  Only two wrestlers lost by only five points, one of which was Teurlings Catholic's freshman Braedon Simoneaux.  Barker won the South Walton Border Wars, the Gulf Coast Scuffle, the Louisiana Classic and the St. Tammany Parish Championships prior to his 12-2 MD finals win over East Ascension's Gabriel Bonin.  His favorite match, however, may have been the LACL finals against Rockwall Heath's Leif Clinton.  Clinton defeated Barker 12-7 in the quarterfinals of that event.  That did not sit well with the Wolves' senior, and he avenged that loss with a finals win via a fall in 2:34.

Second-seeded Gabriel Bonin was the second East Ascension wrestler Barker faced in the Division I state finals (he defeated Santo Ramos 9-7 in 2022).  In his 65 matches he won the Tiger Open, the Griffin Open  District 5A Championships and the Louisiana Public Schools Championships.  He was the runner-up at the Warrior, the Zachary Big Horse, the Battle of New Orleans, the Ken Cole and the Greater Baton Rouge Championships.  He placed a disappointing fifth at the LACL, but that was just a bad event for the Spartans in general.  At the state championships he pinned three of his four pre-finals opponents in the first period, but he was tested in a 4-2 SV win over Jesuit's Patrick Matthews in the quarterfinals.  Against Barker, though, the undefeated defending champion held Bonin to only two escape points.  He avenged a loss to Catholic's Sam Boulet, won a seven match series 4-3 with Dutchtown's William Mathis, got the last of three matches with Covington's Landen Carroll and had losses to the DIvision II finalists and the Division III champion.  Overall, that a good 65-match season. 

Early Championship Rounds

R1: Aiden Sandoz (LAF) defeated defeated Zack Chaney (LO) 11-5

R1: Kohen Johnson (HC) pinned Braden Herty (ZAC) in 0:43

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Quarterfinals

(1) Landry Barker (StP) pinned Bradley Anderson (StA) in 0:37

(5) Landen Carroll (COV) defeated (4) William Mathis (DUT) 6-4 SV

(6) Samuel Riles (BM) defeated (3) Sam Boulet (CAT) 6-4

(2) Gabriel Bonin (EA) defeated (7) Patrick Matthews (JES) 4-2 SV

Semifinals

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Consolation Rounds

C2: Aiden Sandoz (LAF) defeated Braden Herty (ZAC) 10-6

C3: Pedrro Goncalves (MND) defeated Carter Cabiro (FNT) 7-6

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Championship Consolation Rounds

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Finals

(1) Landry Barker of St. Paul defeated (2) Gabriel Bonin of East Ascension 12-2 MD

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