Allen won yet another state championship, extending its state-record haul to 16 since wrestling became a recognized sport in 1999.
Allen rolled up 199 1/2 points and won by 87 points, which is the 9th-largest margin of victory. In the top 10, Allen owns 9 of those marks.
The 199 1/2 points barely snuck into the top 10 all time, pushing Dallas Highland Park’s 190 out of 10th place.
Now, the Eagles own all 10 of the most points scored in 6A history, which started 11 years ago.
The Woodlands College Park (112 1/2) took second and Southlake Carroll (80) finished third. College Park has now been on the podium four times over the past five years. For Southlake, it’s the first trophy since taking second in 2017.
Now, we will go back to look at how we did in our predictions before the state meet. Make sure to call us out on social media if we did great and even if we were off base.
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Our Favorite
Hector Ortiz, jr., El Paso Eastwood
Our Contenders: Declan Mohler, fr., Austin Vandegrift and Bilal Habib, jr., Plano East
Our Sleeper: Sebastian Garcia, jr., Cypress Bridgeland
How did we do?
Oritz dominated through much of the tournament, winning by 8, 9 and 10 points. His closest match was a 9-5 win over Felix Morales from Houston Clear Lake in the semifinals. In the finals, he beat Andy Vila from Katy Paetow, so we didn’t do well on that prediction. Ortiz was 42-1 this year and now has a 1st, 2nd and 5th to his credit. Vila, 48-9, beat Mohler in the semifinals. In third place, Morales beat Sebastian Clark from Austin Lake Travis. Habib beat Garcia, our sleeper, in the 5th-place match. Clark, with a 54-5 mar,k is now tied with Jakob Smith from The Woodlands College Park, who went 54-10 in 2019 for the most wins in the 106 weight class.
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Our Favorite: Dylan Ota, sr., Southlake Carroll
Our contenders: Kingston Stephens, sr., Dallas Jesuit and
Shawn Coffel, so., Cibolo Bryon P. Steele —
Our Sleeper: Fernando Morales, jr., Houston Clear Lake
How did we do? Ota did what we thought he would: win another title. He finished his final season with a 42-2 mark and a third state title, the first Dragon to accomplish that feat. Ota won by an 11-1 major decision against Stephens in the finals. That was the first loss of the year for Stephens, who was 43-0 heading into that match. The senior, 3rd last year at 106, won a pair of close matches to get to the finals: a 2-1 tie-breaking win in OT over Garrett Runhaar from Austin Vandegrift in the quarterfinals and 11-10 against Ayden Galarza from El Paso Eastwood in the semifinals. Arlington Martin’s KT Ellis took third with a 4-2 win over Runhaar. The two met up in round one and Runhaar won, 5-2.
Kenneth Nichols from Klein was 5th, winning by forfeit against Galarza. Collins opened with a win against our sleeper. Morales went 0-2, while Coffel lost in the blood round to Ellis.
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Our Favorite: Oliver Pulliam, fr. Allen
Our Contenders: Jackson Shipley, sr., Dripping Springs and Drew Brinkmeier, so., Keller
Our Sleeper: Adrian Fierros, sr., Katy Cinco Ranch
How did we do?
One of our contenders made the finals and took home the title: Shipley. The senior capped off his career as a two-time after beating James Murray from Austin Lake Travis, by a 19-3 tech fall.
