After freshman Gabe Ballesteros (Mesa, AZ HS) lost his semi-final match on Friday, he knew that in order to earn All-American honors, it would require four more wins. He capped off his season with four wins in a row, including a 6-0 victory over Mt. San Antonio's Christian Betancourt, to earn third place in the CCCAA State Championships at West Hills College. Ballesteros opened the day with a tough 4-3 win over Matthew Correa of Cuesta College and then shut out Northern California champion Chris Martinez, 2-0 before his shutout win over Ballesteros. As a team, the Falcons compiled 59 points to finish in eighth place. They were in seventh place until Sierra College had one of their wrestlers win an individual state championships, which moved then ahead of Cerritos. This season marked the second in a row that the team did not have an individual state champion, but the Falcons are still second in the state history with 50 champions.

Cerritos had two fifth place finishers, two seventh place finishers and one wrestler who came in eighth place. At 133 pounds, sophomore Rudy Delgado (North Torrance HS), who was the only Falcon to reach the semi-finals, lost his first match of the day and then ended the season with a win when Aaron Ceballos of San Joaquin Delta College had to withdraw at 3:49 in the fifth place match. Joining Delgado as a fifth place finisher was freshman Tyler Smith (Marina HS) at 197 pounds, as he defeated Jared Matanane of Mt. San Antonio College, 4-2. Smith picked up two straight wins after his quarterfinal loss, but dropped a match to Matt Reed of Palomar to advance to the third place match. But Smith came back to end the season with a win.

Also finishing the year with victories in seventh place matches were 197-pound sophomore Tyree Cox (Lancaster HS) and 285-pound sophomore Weston Hawkins (Edison HS/North Iowa Area CC), while freshman Michael Behnke (Arlington HS) was defeated in his 141-pound seventh place match. Cox, who came in second place at the Southern California Championships, pinned Awwad Yasin of Santa Ana College in 3:49 after a loss to Tyler Brown of Sacramento City College dropped him into the seventh place match. Hawkins, who had tight matches in four of his five competitions over the weekend, ended with a 2-0 win over Sacramento City's Paul Buchanan. Behnke opened the day with a convincing 13-3 win over Ishi Silva of Santa Rosa Junior College, but suffered losses in his final two matches, including an 8-3 decision against Bakersfield College's Max Ramirez, and finished in eighth place.