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Kamehameha’s Kysen Terukina still rules the world, but he is not the only elite talent in the school’s wrestling room. Fellow Kamehameha senior Brant Porter moves up to No. 2 the newest Hawaii Prep World pound-for-pound rankings by a slim margin after blowing his way through Officials when two-time state champ Coby Ravida of Baldwin stayed home. Porter jumps over Kapolei’s Branden Pagurayan, who has been his usual dominant self except for an overtime loss to previously unranked Kanai Tapia […]

The pound-for-pound rankings shook up a little bit after last week’s epic 138-pound class at the Pa’ani Challenge that included three reigning state champions. Nanea Estrella of Lahainaluna reigned supreme in the bracket, beating both Paige Respicio of Kamehameha and Baldwin’s Waipuilani Estrella-Beauchamp. Estrella-Beauchamp and Respicio didn’t face each other, but the Baldwin senior does have a win over Estrella in the Garner Ivey MIT late last year, making them 1-1 against each other and pushing Estrella-Beauchamp to No. 2. […]

Nanea Estrella and Waipuilani Estrella-Beauchamp are cousins who put the hurt on each other often. Their great grandfathers were brothers, which means their grandfathers are cousins, and they have a lot in common. Both are multiple state wrestling title winners and both will be wrestling in college. Estrella, from Lahainaluna, is out to get her fourth state championship this spring. She won states at 117 pounds as a freshman, 122 as a sophomore and 127 as a junior. She doesn’t […]