{"id":189971,"date":"2025-02-23T22:06:47","date_gmt":"2025-02-24T03:06:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=189971"},"modified":"2025-02-23T22:06:48","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T03:06:48","slug":"weekend-recap-sectional-wrestling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2025\/02\/23\/weekend-recap-sectional-wrestling\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend recap: sectional wrestling"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>VW independent sports<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Division III sectionals<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>LIMA &#8212; Crestview had four wrestlers place at the Division III sectionals at Lima Central Catholic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ayden Martin won the 165-pound weight class with a 14-7 finals victory over Parkway\u2019s Landon Younker. After an opening round bye, Martin advanced to the semifinals with a 15-0 technical fall over Jacob Pinks of Allen East. Crestview\u2019s Robert Tyas finished second at 120 pounds after a 19-4 technical fall loss to Corbin Kimmel in the finals. Grant Grubb finished third at 106 after pinning Coldwater\u2019s T.J. Gross in 3:59. Luke Sawmiller finished fifth at 150 with a 5-2 decision over Parkway\u2019s Braedn Conn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lincolnview\u2019s lone placer was Cody Ricker, who finished second at 157 pounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The top four wrestlers in each weight class advanced to districts at Troy this weekend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Knights finished 11<sup>th<\/sup> at the 15 team tournament (70.5), while Crestview placed 12<sup>th<\/sup> (29.5 points). Allen East won the team title with 163.5 points while Coldwater was the runner-up (157).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Division II sectionals<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>DEFIANCE &#8212; Owen Bates, Briggs Wallace and Breese Bollenbacher of Van Wert have qualfied for district competition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bates finished third at Saturday\u2019s Division II sectionals at Defiance by pinning Brian Camacho of Wauseon in 2:24. Wallace finished fourth at 144 and Bollenbacher was the third place finisher at 285 after pinning Bath\u2019s Kyle Slaght in 3:45. Wallace and Bollenbacher are now two-time district qualifiers. As a team, the Cougars finished eighth at sectionals. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All three will wrestle at the Norwalk district.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent sports Division III sectionals LIMA &#8212; Crestview had four wrestlers place at the Division III sectionals at Lima Central Catholic. Ayden Martin won the 165-pound weight class with a 14-7 finals victory over Parkway\u2019s Landon Younker. After an opening round bye, Martin advanced to the semifinals with a 15-0 technical fall over Jacob [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-10 05:57:46","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189971"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":189978,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189971\/revisions\/189978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}