Six Warriors placed in the top six in their individual weight classes, led by freshman Kysen Terukina, who won the 113-pound bracket. Terukina defeated Damien's Landon Obra-Nakata, 6-1, in his title bout. Sylvia Lee | SL

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WAHIAWA — The Kamehameha boys and Roosevelt girls claimed the team titles at the Hawaii Wrestling Officials Association Scholarship Tournament at Leilehua's Paul T. Kobayashi Gymnasium Saturday night.

Kamehameha edged defending state champion Iolani by just two points, 134 1/2 to 132 1/2. Campbell (123 points), Waianae (115 1/2) and Kapolei (105) rounded out the top five boys teams.

Six Warriors placed in the top six in their individual weight classes, led by freshman Kysen Terukina, who won the 113-pound bracket.

Terukina defeated Damien's Landon Obra-Nakata, 6-1, in his title bout.

He opened the scoring with a takedown late in the first period and went up 4-0 with a reversal about 35 seconds into the second period. Terukina extended his lead to 6-0 with another reversal 40 seconds into the third period before Obra-Nakata got his lone point on an escape in the final minute.

"I always want to get the first takedown to at least get that comfort so that I'm not playing catch up the whole rest of the match," said Terukina, who had not wrestled Obra-Nakata previously.

First-year Kamehameha coach Rob Hesia was all smiles when talking about Terukina's performance Saturday.

"The kid works hard and he keeps elevating his wrestling," Hesia said. "For him to be at such a young age, he handled it great and he's just gaining the confidence that he can be at this level. He's a ninth-grader by age, but he's maturing with every single match."

Terukina, who hails from a wrestling family, overcame a vast age disparity to top the Damien senior.

"I had high expectations to live up to and I just had to work harder than others because I'm a freshman and I'm at the bottom so I'm still working my way up," said Terukina, who credited his older brothers for toughening him up as a youngster. "They push me real hard. I got beat up from all of my brothers, so when I wrestle people my weight it's no problem."

One of those siblings — older brother Zayren, a Campbell sophomore — won his weight class about an hour before Kysen did with an 11-3 decision over Kamehameha's Matthew Perez.

Three defending state champions — Saint Louis' Corey Cabanban, Campbell's Micah Tynanes-Perez and Iolani's Dane Yamashiro — were among the other individual titlists.

Cabanban's 120-pound final against Kapolei's Jayson Pagurayan was the final match of the night and well worth the wait.

Cabanban held a 2-1 lead after the first period and made it a 5-1 advantage following an escape and takedown in the first 38 seconds of the second period. However, Pagurayan stormed back with a reversal just as the second period ended and worked an escape with 39 seconds left in the third period to pull within 5-4.

With the wrestlers back in the neutral position, Cabanban appeared to add a couple of insurance points with 27 seconds remaining, but he was ruled out of the competition area before completing the takedown and after a brief discussion between the two on-mat officials, the points were taken off the board.

"I thought I had it because on the other side of the mat I was in the same position earlier and I got that call," said Cabanban, a junior who has lost just one match in his high school career. "It was kind of hard to shake that off when they took the points away, but I just had to stay focused because (Pagurayan) kept coming and fought all the way to the end."

The final 25 seconds were fast-paced with Cabanban successfully defending each attack by the aggressive Pagurayan.

It was the third time in his career that Cabanban met Pagurayan, but first meeting this season. Cabanban has won all three times

"This time it was more intense," said Cabanban, who won states titles at 106 pounds as a freshman and 113 last year. "I was kind of nervous, but he's a good competitor all-around. It was a good match."

Tynanes-Perez, who won at 195 pounds last year, pinned Saint Francis' Trinity Fautanu in the 220-pound final. Yamashiro defeated Baldwin's Noah Feitosa Leite in the 285-pound title bout — the same weight he won a state crown in last season.

Kainoa Torigoe (106 pounds) and KJ Pascua (170) also won their divisions for Iolani. PAC-5 had a trio of champions in Joseph Fong (138), Alexandre Mimura (145) and Lincoln Mussell (182).

Other individual champions were Lahainaluna's Kainalu Estrella (126 pounds), Pearl City's Makoa Cooper (152), Aiea's Brandon Burgos (160) and Baldwin's Jayden Ferreira (195).

Meanwhile, Roosevelt posted 151 points to runner-up Baldwin's 134 1/2 in the girls' competition. Lahainaluna was third with 114 1/2 points and Moanalua and Waianae tied for fourth with 102.

Juniors Xiaolin Mai and Macy Higa won at 102 and 117 pounds, respectively, to lead the Rough Riders, who placed seven of their 10 entrants in the top six of their respective weight classes

"We never get our hopes up, but we just hope for the best," Roosevelt fifth-year coach Ted Kaneda said. "They came out to wrestle, so that's always a blessing."

The Rough Riders, who placed third at the Officials tournament last year, also got runner-up finishes from Haylee Fujioka at 107 pounds and Kahula Coleman at 168. Anjelynn Baron and Kaylah Samia posted third-place finishes at 97 and 225 pounds, respectively, and Alexandria Nelson was fourth at 127.

"Xiaolin and Macy did an awesome job, along with everybody else. Everybody contributed," said Kaneda, whose team finished fourth in last year's state tournament. "Hopefully we just snowball from here and we just keep working hard, but we don't take anything for granted and we just take one tournament at a time."

Higa won the 112-pound state title as a sophomore last year. She made quick work of Jessica Sawai, of Punahou-B, with a first-round pin just 22 seconds into their 117-pound title bout Saturday.

"We don't expect anything less from Macy," Kaneda said. "She's always working hard and being really selfless in everything she does."

Three others defending state champions — Lahainaluna's Iverly Navarro (107 pounds), Radford's Angela Peralta (145) and Leilehua's Kelani Corbett (155) — also won their brackets.

Lahainaluna had two other individual titlists in 97-pounder Ira Navarro and 112-pounder Alexis Encinas. Pearl City had a pair of champs in Mikayla Abe and Jennie Fuamatu, who won the 122 and 184-pound brackets, respectively.

Other individual winners were Kahuku's Teniya Alo (127 pounds), Moanalua's Faith-Joy Okubo (132), Kamehameha's Zion-Grace Vierra (138), Baldwin's Saydie Kala (168) and Farrington's Lavenia Fotu (225).

There were 319 boys and 191 girls that competed in 879 bouts over the two-day tournament.