Kapolei’s Kekuaokalani Marumoto has already conquered the state; now he is going back and picking up the title he missed along the way.

Marumoto, a defending state champion, beat Mililani’s Kulana Salera at 161 pounds to win his first league title at the OIA Individual judo championships at Leilehua on Saturday.

Salera was going for his second OIA title, but now he and Marumoto are even in OIA medals. Campbell’s Micah Platt, Moanalua’s Chevy Tabiolo Felicilda and Mililani’s Dayton Furuta all won their second OIA titles, but none of them have scaled the mountain for a state title like Marumoto has. Ask him to rank judoka, and they might all be ahead of him.

"I am not a great judo player; this is my 12th year doing judo and I have never been very good," Marumoto said. "I don’t consider myself a state champion until I repeat it. The thing about my weight class in the OIA is that everyone is good and there are no slouches, (Salera) and I go back and forth. It is just about who prepares more, I guess."

Marumoto needed a win, after enduring so much loss. His sensei, Leigh Nakamoto, died in 2012 and Marumoto wears his initials on his belt when he competes. His great grandmother also died recently.

"This is all for her," Marumoto said. "Every year when I played I always win for him this one is for her. It means a lot."

There were no repeat OIA champions on the girls side, with all 10 champions wearing the OIA crown for the first time.

One of those, Pearl City freshman Chastyne Dolor, made a case for the OIA’s next great judoka. Dolor beat Mililani’s Kaylin Castro for the championship at 109, shaking off Castro’s credentials, which include an OIA title and state championship last year.

Castro was the only girl in the tournament who could make that claim, but she was coming off a loss to the freshman in the OIA Western Division championships last week.

"She fought well, she fought hard," Pearl City coach Robin Puahala said. "It was going to come down to whoever makes the first mistake. She got lucky twice and I am proud of her. I don’t know much about (the other wrestlers in the state at her weight class); all I know is that we have the defending champ in our league and she beat her twice."

Dolor is actually supposed to battle at a lighter weight, but opted to go to 109 against the defending champion to benefit her team. Things are supposed to get harder for the freshman as the season goes, but she will get a seeded berth at the state championships on May 10 at the Stan Sheriff Center.

"I have thought about it since I was little," Dolor said. "I have never been to states, but I can only imagine how big it is."

Dolor won her first match of the OIA tournament by ippon in three seconds over Roosevelt’s Megan Mena and needed 3:40 to beat McKinley’s Hayley Urabe by ippon before her long match with Castro.

Roosevelt’s Kristen Kojima was the other defending state champion in the tournament, and she used that experience to pick up her first OIA title with a win over Mililani’s Haylie Shinsato. Pearl City’s Trudi Elatagonde was the only other girl going for an OIA repeat, but she lost to Campbell’s Taylor Jean Allen.

Six different schools had champions in the 10 girls weight classes, with Pearl City (three) and Moanalua (two) as the only schools to have multiple champions.

Seven different schools had champions in the boys brackets, with Kapolei, Campbell and Moanalua each doubling up.