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.  and 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's prediction of texting ruining the English language as he was taught it became blatantly obvious in the few articles local media published covering high school wrestling events (with the exception of writers who cover the state championships and the Louisiana Classic and Ken Cole), and most were written by persons who had never steppe on a wrestling mat in anger.  He started the Louisiana Wrestling News (www.lawrestlingnews.com) in order to analyze wrestling events by 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.  However, an estimate may be attempted by looking at the 2019 LHSAA State Wrestling Championships.  Martin went home with about 25,000 photographs and published over 7,600 of them.

Martin was forced to give up both websites in 2025 due to a sharp decline in his vision.