Farrington, which trailed Kahuku by 10 points entering yesterday's semifinals, finished with 153.5 points to win the championship. Defending champion Kahuku (127) was second, followed by Baldwin (97.5), Kamehameha (94.5) and Iolani (82).

Hedin, a senior, came from behind and then pinned Baldwin's Shyla Iokia at 5:27 to win the 125-pound championship. She also won state titles at 121 pounds in 2002 and 2003.

"There was a lot more stress with this one," Hedin said. "The first time, you're just a sophomore and no one's really looking at you. But once you win it, they all expect you do it again and everybody's looking at you. And then the third time, it's even harder."

Her victory over Iokia actually proved to be one of the best matches of the finals. Iokia took a 1-0 lead in the first period on an escape and went up 3-0 with a takedown early in the second period. Hedin got a reversal to make it 3-2, then got another reversal early in the third period to go up, 4-3. Iokia tied it at 4 with an escape, then they traded reversals to tie it again at 6-6. Hedin got a takedown to go up 8-6, then scored the pin with 33 seconds remaining in the match.

"It was a real tough match," Hedin said. "I was trying to ride her (in the third period), then she reversed me, then I reversed her and got on top and got the pin. I wrestled her in last year's tournament and I wrestled with her in (offseason) freestyle, so I knew she'd be tough."

Hedin, who wrestles "11 months of the year," said patience was a key to winning yesterday.

"Even though I was down, three points is not a lot — you can still come back," she said. "I wasn't panicking, because there was still five minutes left. I just tried to breathe, wrestle my game and do what I had to do. It feels great."

Besides Hedin, Roosevelt's Sadie Kaneda (108) and Farrington's Sunshine Misa-Uli (175) also repeated as state champions.

Kaneda pinned Iolani's Catherine Chan at 44 seconds, and Misa-Uli defeated Baldwin's Leolani Corpuz, 12-4.

Tamitha Hufana (114) also won a title for Farrington, which had 11 wrestlers entered into the tournament.

"We had been in this situation before with Kahuku, but today we just closed the gap because our strengths were their weaknesses," said Governors coach Sandy Obra. "Kahuku had some adversity with injuries and sickness, but still nothing was guaranteed for us. Everybody just did their job and things fell into place."

Two freshmen, Brandie Dela Rama (98) and Noreen Paned (108), played key roles for Farrington by taking third and sixth, respectively. Also, the Govs' Pualani Nunies (130) and Stephanie Feleunga (220) each took third and Sherilyn Tambua placed sixth at 140.

"We expected Tammie and Sunshine to do well, but it was also all the other people who gave us four points here or three points there," Obra said. "If you look at Sherilyn, she's a basketball player who Sunshine got to come out for wrestling this year, and she contributed 10 points in this tournament. And Noreen, she was on the JV until halfway through the season when we needed her to fill a slot and get us points. If we don't get wins and pins from people like that, we don't win. All the girls took the challenge, took it to heart and did their job."