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Weight Class Synopsis

Nawab Singh had a stellar 25-1 record against Louisiana opponents with his only loss coming two days before the Louisiana Classic to Blain Cascio of St. Paul.  (Anyone who can get over 20 matches this year is having an excellent season, though.)  With Cascio dropping to 182 lbs. Singh was the top seed at this event.  Defending Division II state champion Dylan Oliver, seeded second, had a 13-1 record but 10 of the wins, as well as the loss, were to out-of-state competition.  Seeded third was Sulphur's Corey Hyatt who was a mere 3-0 but that included a Jacob McMillan championship.

Singh use a bye and three pins to reach the finals.  Olivier looked good with two first-round falls and a major decision en route to the semifinals, but Hyatt, after first-round pin and an 8-1 decision, made the semifinals different.  Hyatt scored first and never trailed in a 7-4 win.

State Implications

Division I: Hyatt, who now is 7-0, will be the top seed followed by Singh and then maybe Josh Sabadie of St. Paul, although Sabadie is only 3-0.  Parkway's Jaden Jones, who is 7-3, has lost to Hyatt twice and Teurlings Catholic's Eric Levert, who placed fourth in the Louisiana Classic.  Jones has a DQ loss which knocked him out of the placing matches, but he should be the third seed, followed then perhaps by Sabadie.  Zachary's Cameron Walker is 6-2, with his losses coming from Summerfield's Trace Morrow and to Olivier in the consolation semifinals.  However, he was DQ's in his match for fifth place and then might put Gavyn O'Connor in the #4 spot.

Division II: Olivier will be the one to beat again, followed by Levert, whom Olivier pined in 2:33 to place 3rd.  Barring a major mistake by one of those two, the remainder of this weight class will be vying for third.

Division III: Summerfield's Trace Morrow will be seeded first, with Jason Krail of De la Salle second.  They both advanced to the 4th consolation round at this event, but Morrow (17-7) has two wins over Krail (17-9).  Brusly senior Aaron Couty should be seeded third due to a loss to Krail.

Early Championship Rounds

R1: Hayden Harms (DUT) pinned Will York (EPI) in 2:56

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Semifinals

Nawab Singh (LO) pinned Eric Levert (TC) in 5:08

Corey Hyatt (SUL) defeated Dylan Olivier (ND) 7-4

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3rd-5th

Dylan Olivier (ND) pinned Eric Levert (TC) in 2:15 to place 3rd

Gavyn O'Connor (HC) advanced via a disqualification of Cameron Walker (ZAC) to place 5th

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Finals

Corey Hyatt of Sulphur pinned Nawab Singh of Live Oak in 4:27. Hyatt was a scoring machine.  He had three takedowns in the first period and an escape, a takedown and a reversal in the second, allowing Singh only a reversal and two escapes.  Starting on top in the third period, Hyatt needed only 27 seconds to turn Singh over and record a fall.

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