Here’s to the first-timers, the third-timers, the all-too-rare four-timers.

The latter group grew by one Saturday, when Sidney’s Aiden Graves beat Lewistown’s Wyatt Elam 8-0 for his fourth State A crown. Graves is the 38th Montanan to reach this pinnacle.

Odds are Glacier’s Teegan Vasquez will add to that total next year.

“That’s definitely the plan,” said the junior, whose third state title came via a pin at 132 pounds. “That’s been my goal. That’s what we’ve been talking about.”

Talk is cheap, and Vasquez doesn’t have a lot of time for that. Saturday against Billings Senior’s Idren Peak, he gave up a takedown and then ended up pinning the Bronc in 1 minute, 25 seconds.

“He was staying low, wrestling tough,” said Vasquez, one of three Glacier boys to place at the State AA. “I did a quick little sit and he didn’t want to give up the two and so I just got him in a cradle.”

And that was that.

A year ago Vasquez won his second title and clinched first for the Flathead Brave Brawlers in the process; this year Keyan Hernandez, a sophomore and now two-time champion, did the honors with his 8-0 win over Billings Senior’s Cole Krutzfeldt in the 113 final, assuring the Broncs second place.

Meanwhile, Bozeman’s Avery Allen won his third state title, this time at 152 pounds. He’s a junior.

For the record Glacier’s Garrett Bosch was sixth at 113 and Aiden Krause sixth at 182; the Pack scored 74.5 points, good for ninth out of 16 teams.

Hiding in the weeds during all this was the Glacier girls squad, which finished fourth in the team race with 90 points.

Freshman Brooke Yeadon was second at 103 points; Audrey Goodsell was sixth at 170. Eight more girls scored points though they didn’t place.

Two guys that battled this season won titles in their respective classes: Columbia Falls’ Justin Windauer got his first in State A, at 138; Thompson Falls’ Trae Thilmony got his third in B-C, at 145.

Thilmony got a third-period pin of Absarokee-Columbus senior Brady Ellison (in 4:54). Windauer’s match went the distance, with the junior winning a takedown battle from Miles City’s Currey Brown, 8-4.

“There’s not really much to that,” Windauer said. “I just had to push the pace on him. My semifinal match was tough – I was losing and then got the pin. Super tough kid (Hardin’s Sean Mehling).”

“Everyone comes to wrestle in the finals,” Thilmony said after his match. “He was shutting down what I was trying to do. But we found a way to get it done.”

The celebration of the day came at the end: Libby sophomore Jace DeShazer, who celebrated his pin (in 1:34) of Livingston’s Cade Gubler with a cartwheel, then a backflip.

“I was really excited for this match,” said the sophomore. “I’ve been waiting for it all day. I was really bummed when they drew 205 (to start the finals), and we had to wait for every single weight class to wrestle.

“I sat in that room and practiced what I was going to do, perfected it (a “fake double-leg and lateral drop”, and went out there and did it.”