Teen wrangles 15-foot, 100-pound python in Florida: ‘The thing went nuts’

His Hogwarts house sure wouldn’t be Slytherin.

A Florida teenager was praised for wrasslin’ up a massive, 15-foot-6-inch python during his first-ever trip to the state’s southernmost Everglades National Park on Sunday.

The reptile-wrangling rock star, 18-year-old Jack Cronin of Fort Meyers, had but one thing to say after impressively capturing the monstrous leviathan.

“I was, like, ‘That’s a big snake,’ ” Cronin aptly told CBS4 Miami, which reported that the python weighed more than 100 pounds and was longer than an SUV while uncoiled.

“That was my first python I ever jumped on. I’ve caught little snakes — that was my first python I’d ever seen,” he added.

Even spookier for the recent high school grad, who had python hunting on his bucket list, is that it appeared during the dead of night.

“We go over and there’s just a snake’s head sitting there, the size of my head. I shined the flashlight back through the woods to see the body and couldn’t even see the end of it,” Cronin, now a freshman at the University of Central Florida, said. “Then I’m like, of course, ‘I wanna jump on it.’ So I jumped on it, grabbed its head, then the thing went nuts and it turned into a wrestling match.”

A Florida teen wrangled a massive, 15-foot-6-inch python.

Jack Cronin wrestled down a gigantic python in southern Florida. — Jack Cronin wrestled the gigantic python in southern Florida.

Needless to say, the python had a slight size advantage over the 5-foot-10 teenager; regardless, Cronin called his man vs. nature victory “an adrenaline rush like no other.”

Why exactly was an adolescent going to war with a predatory basilisk in the dead of night?

The state-sanctioned Florida Python Challenge, of course.

It’s an annual contest that offers both professionals and “novice competitors” a crack at $10,000 and other cash prizes as an incentive to remove the ecosystem-harming beasts from the Sunshine State.

Not to worry, though: online training is required.