Martin Muller
Inducted: April 12th, 2025
Wrestled at St. Martin's 19977-1981: Division II state
champion in 1980 and 1981.
Wrestled at the University of Texas at Austin from 1981
to 1984: Texas Collegiate Wrestling Association state champion 1984.
Assistant coach at St. Martin's from 1984-6 and De la
Salle from 2007-9.
In 2006, after a 20-year hiatus from wrestling, Martin
contemplated all of the wrestling records that must have been lost in New
Orleans area schools like Jesuit, De la Salle, and, in particular, Holy Cross.
He thought such records should be stored somewhere unaffected by the whims of
mother nature. The internet seemed like the perfect place.
Coach Bill Bofinger of Lee High and Baton Rouge had already compiled state
championship results since 1945 in his book Ready....Wrestle, and he
allowed Martin to put that data on a website called the Louisiana High
School Wrestling Archives (www.lhswa.org).
In 2012 Martin saw that most articles about wrestling were written by persons who had never stepped on a wrestling mat. He started the Louisiana Wrestling News (www.lawrestlingnews.com) in order to write about wrestling events from the perspective of someone knowledgeable about the sport. He also included photographs, taken with top-of-the-line DLSR cameras and lenses, which were free for parents, wrestlers and fans to download. The exact number of photographs Martin published is unknown. Based on how many he published at state tournaments, other two-day events, one day tournaments and dual meets, 200,000 is a modest estimate.
In 2024 Martin was forced to give up both websites due to eye poisoning from 2015 to 2020.