“It’s like when you are talking about a fight, everyone talks about the first punch,” Reyes said. “I like to set the pace in the first second of the match. The mental edge I have over a lot of my opponents is very high.”

Martinez went 49-1 — his loss coming to No. 1-ranked Bo Jordan on his home turf of Ohio at the Walsh Ironman — with 40 falls. Then his postseason run featured bonus points in all 12 matches, including five falls at state, the last coming in 1:26 over defending 145-pound champ Jake Elliott of Oakmont in the final.

“My wrestling style is aggressive and in your face,” Martinez said. “You have to wrestle me for the entire 6 minutes. If you score on me, you have to earn it. I feel I have a universal style that translates to anyone I wrestle.”

Reyes and Martinez are admitted wrestling junkies who spend countless hours studying and practicing their sport in quest of perfecting what they do on the mat.

“He wanted to set a precedence of being dominant to show our younger kids to expect greatness,” Clovis West coach Ian Shaw said. “He expects so much of himself. He doesn’t like to lose, even when we would do sprints. He knew he was preparing for something bigger.”

The nationally No. 4-ranked Reyes is headed to Illinois on scholarship, while the second-ranked Martinez, who is being courted by the likes of Cornell, Oklahoma State and Illinois so far, will take aim at becoming the state’s 17th three-time champion next season.

“He loves the sport. He lives it, actually. That’s what makes him a phenomenal athlete,” Lemoore coach Marcio Botelho said. “He pins his way through the state meet and he was right back in the room on Monday wanting to get better and work on his weaknesses. Sometimes I’m like, ‘What are his weaknesses,’ because he did it in such dominant fashion.”