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Place	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th
Podium
Name	Jacob Schexnaydre	Samuel Torres	Nicholas Migliacio	Dominic Logiudice	Adam Landry	Danon Walker
School	East Ascension	Northshore	Catholic	Jesuit	Baton Rouge	Airline
Seed	2	5	4	7	3	1
Record	53-3	15-3	34-7	15-7	37-6	28-4
Class	12	11	12	12	12	10

East Ascension's Jacob Schexnaydre lost his first match of the season, again, to Catholic's Thomas Domangue.  That was on November 2nd, 2022.  But he faired better than 364 days before, when he lost 17-4 MD.  This time it was only a 7-2 match.  He did not lose again in November or December, and succumbed to what I have already mentioned was just a bad Louisiana Classic for everybody associated with East Ascension.  There he fell to unseeded Airline wrestler Danon Walker in the semifinals 9-7 SV.  He lost in the consolation semifinals to Baton Rouge's Adam Landry 4-3 and the placed fifth in a 3-2 match.  Before the LACL Schexnaydre won the Warrior Invitational, the Tiger Open, the Spartan Invitational, the Zachary Big Horse and the District 5-5A Championships.  After the LACL he won the Ken Cole and the Greater Baton Rouge Championships.  And the Division I championship, of course.  If he had been sick in early November and relapsed the weekend of the LACL, he might have been undefeated and seeded first at the state championships.  As things were, though, due to his loss to Walker at the LACL, Schexnaydre was seeded second.

The Spartan senior would not get a rematch against Walker though.  Fifth-seeded Samuel Torres, or "Samson," of Northshore made sure of that.  Torres defeated fourth-seeded Nicholas Migliacio of Catholic 3-0 and then pushed Walker to the limit, winning their semifinals match 4-4 UTB.  During the season Torres won the Titan Invitational and the St. Tammany Parish Championships, placed fourth at the  LACL and sixth at the Trey Culotta.  The Northshore junior was not supposed to be in the state finals, but, well, the Airline sophomore Walker was not supposed to win the LACL.  (Things just got worse for Walker after the grueling 4-4 UTB match - Dominic Logiudice of Jesuit defeated him 3-2, and he had enough wrestling by that time, as Landry pinned him in 0:36 in the match for fifth-place.  He is a sophomore, so he will come back.)  Torres only lost two match during the season - an 8-6 SV loss to Migliacio and a fall to Landry, both at the LACL.  Had he been sick during the LACL, he probably would have been seeded second.

Early Championship Rounds

R2: Tyler Maher (LO)

(3) Adam Landry (BR) pinned Ellis Hughes (JE) in 3:50

R1: Tyler Maher (LO) defeated Jayden Naquin (StA) 5-2

R2: (8) Jared Paulino (StP) pinned Jackson Lavin (LAF) in 0:47

R2: (6) Gabriel Brewer (BM) defeated Adam Glendening (MND) 8-3

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Quarterfinals

(1) Danon Walker (AIR) defeated (8) Jared Paulino (StP) 17-2 TF

(5) Samuel Torres (NTH) defeated (4) Nicholas Migliacio (CAT) 3-0

(3) Adam Landry (BR) defeated (6) Gabriel Brewer (BM) 16-0 TF

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Semifinals

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Championship Consolation Rounds

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Finals

(2) Jacob Schexnaydre of East Ascension defeated (5) Samuel Torres of Northshore 9-4 Schexnaydre opened a 4-2 lead with two takedowns in the first period.  He was awarded a penalty point in the second period, but Torres did not score in that round.  Leading 5-2 entering the last two minutes, Torres gave up four penalty points while only managing one reversal.  Schexnaydre had enough to win the match after the first four minutes.  Torres, though, will be back as a 2023-24 senior.

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