Wichita ? All Free State High’s Brett Shoffner could do was give Overland Park Aquinas’ Drew Ibarra a hug.

A lack of energy and a leg injury nearly kept Shoffner from even limping off the mat after his 6-5 loss to the Saints’ senior in the 152-pound championship match of the state wrestling tournament at the Kansas Coliseum.

“I heard something pop,” said Shoffner, a junior whose escape attempt to tie the contest with under 10 seconds left was thwarted when Ibarra ripped him back to the middle of the mat by his legs.

After a five-minute injury timeout, Shoffner tried one last time to get away from Ibarra. He couldn’t.

“I knew I had to tough it out and try to get out one last time,” said Shoffner, whose left knee was wrapped in ice after his match. “I just couldn’t do it.”

Free State coach Darrell Andrew said Shoffner did plenty during his 26-12 season.

“That kid just came out and gave it everything he had all the time,” Andrew said. “I just know that if he would have had about 30 seconds left, it would have been him walking away with a state championship.

Shoffner set the tone early with aggressive moves, but Ibarra held a 5-1 lead near the second period’s end.

Shoffner rallied to pull to 6-5, and with nine seconds left, he did a spectacular squirming somersault to try to get away from Ibarra, but the effort proved to be his last shot.

“After the match, Ibarra told me he lost by one point last year and he said it motivated him throughout this season,” Shoffner said. “So I guess I’ll be running again on Monday.”

Baldwin High’s Kyle Flory got tired of being beat by state champions all season, so he became one Saturday.

Free State's Brett Shoffner, in green, struggles with Overland Park Aquinas' Drew Ibarra in the championship match of the 152-pound class. Shoffner lost the match and placed second at the state meet Saturday in Wichita.

“Yeah, you could say that,” said Flory, whose six losses this season came to current and former Kansas and Missouri state champs.

The 171-pound Bulldog dominated Columbus’ Kurtis Baylor, 12-3, in the Class 4A final.

“It’s just an awesome feeling, knowing that you can keep working and finally get it done,” Flory said.

Flory’s title signaled the second straight season Baldwin and coach Kit Harris have had a champ. Last year, Witt Hinton won the heavyweight crown.

“I think it speaks volumes about the kind of matches we wrestle throughout the season,” said Harris, whose team finished 16th with 40.5 points. “Those kind of tests show you what you have to do to improve for this time of the year.”

Hutchinson won its second straight 6A title, while Free State took 18th and Lawrence finished 23rd. Arkansas City snagged its 18th team title in Class 5A, holding off Wichita Carroll by 11 points. And Abilene won class 4A with 113 points, while Columbus and Goodland tied with 100 points.

Lawrence High’s Aaron Madill won’t leave Wichita with the one thing he wanted all season — a state title — but the senior did bounce back Saturday to take third place with a 5-4 win over Garden City’s Paul Lappin.

“I thought about it all last night and this morning,” Madill said of his first setback this season, when he lost to Manhattan’s Derek Bunker, 6-5, in Friday’s championship semifinals.

“I came here with one goal — to win it all. But I told myself I had to come back and win two more today. I’m leaving here with the 41 wins I hoped I would have, it’s just that my record has a one on the end of it.”

Things weren’t as magical for Free State senior Nick McGovern, who also made it back to the third-place round at 189-pounds, but was beaten 5-2 by Topeka’s Russell Washington.

“Some people might think that McGovern had kind of a bad day,” Andrew said. “But he went out there and left it all on the line. Our program is going to really miss the things he provided.”

The city only had two other wrestlers make it out of the second round of the consolation bracket. Lion freshman Brendan Halpin won his first match of the day at 135 pounds, but was pinned in the quarterfinals.

Free State’s Kyle Frank — who took third last year at state, but lost 6-5 to Derby’s Matt Wintz in the second round Friday — won his first match easily, but fell 8-4 to Olathe East’s Adam Salvoni in the quarters.

Baldwin High wrestler Kyle Flory, top, works on a pin of Columbus' Kurtis Baylor during the 171-pound championship match. Flory won the match and the state title Saturday in Wichita.

Lawrence’s Chris Cates (103-pound freshman), Pharouk Hussein (125-pound sophomore) and Nolan Kellerman (140-pound freshman) and Free State’s Matt Somers (125-pound junior), Grant Steinback (215-pound senior) and Jeremy Bustamante (275-pound junior) all ended their day with losses in the second round of consolation.

DeSoto freshman Neil Erisman’s amazing run at an undefeated state-championship season came to and end in overtime of the 145-pound title match.

Erisman (33-1) was called for stalling with nine seconds left in the third.

Colby’s Eric Luedke was awarded a point to tie things at 1-all.

Erisman looked to score first in OT, but the referee ruled the two wrestlers were out of bounds. Luedke then responded with a wrap-around move that provided the winning takedown.

Mill Valley senior Eric Pingleton also came into Saturday’s final round with a perfect 40-0 record.

But Concordia senior Jacob Strait pulled out a 1-0 win.

Eudora’s Mike Paxton lost to Goodland’s Jordan Bedore, 17-2, in the 215-pound finale.

Santa Fe Trail had two sophomores make it back through the consolation bracket and wrestle for third place. Travis Eden defeated Labette County’s Matt Ybarra, 6-3, at 145 pounds, while Chad Shemale lost to Fort Scott’s Nathan Allison in the 140 weight class.

Eudora senior Shane Grant finished his career with a fifth place medal by pinning Baldwin’s Sam Coffey in the heavyweight division.