{"id":200223,"date":"2025-12-05T06:42:26","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T11:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=200223"},"modified":"2025-12-05T06:42:29","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T11:42:29","slug":"cougar-wrestlers-open-season-with-a-w","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2025\/12\/05\/cougar-wrestlers-open-season-with-a-w\/","title":{"rendered":"Cougar wrestlers open season with a &#8216;W&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>VW independent sports<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>KENTON \u2013 Thursday\u2019s season opener was a success for the Van Wert wrestling team, as the Cougars traveled to Kenton and jumped out to a 43-0 lead before finishing off the dual meet 66-10. Individual results are as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>106 \u2013 Alianna Estrada (VW) win by forfeit\u00a06-0 VW<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>113 \u2013 Owen Bates (VW) win by forfeit\u00a012-0 VW<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>120 \u2013 Jillian Sempkowski (VW) win by fall :55 over Ava Grindell (K) 18-0 VW<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>126 \u2013 Heath Calvelage (VW) win by forfeit\u00a024-0 VW<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>132 \u2013 Ryan Wallace (VW) win by tech fall\u00a016-1 over David Modd (K)\u00a029-0 VW<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>138 \u2013 Roman Martin (VW) win by major decision 19-9 over Harrison Brien (K)\u00a033-0 VW<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>144 \u2013 Gavin Gonzalez (VW) win by major decision 14-1 over Max Farley (K)\u00a037-0 VW<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>150 &#8211; Carter Bledsoe (VW) win by forfeit\u00a043-0 VW<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>157 &#8212; Isaiah Mundy (K) win by tech fall 17-2 over Briggs Wallace (VW)\u00a043-5 VW<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>165 &#8212; Devon Burker (VW) win by fall :39 over Isaiah Poland (K)\u00a049-5 VW<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>175 &#8212; Phillip Burker (VW) win by fall :40 over Bradyn Hildereth (K)\u00a054-5 VW<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>190 &#8211; Isaac Blevins (K) win by tech fall 17-2 over Auston Welker (VW) 54-10 VW<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>215 &#8211; Max Heuerman (VW) win by fall :39 over Michael Hare (K)\u00a060-10 VW<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>285 &#8211; Breese Bollenbacher (VW) win by fall 2:45 over Brison Laubis (K)\u00a0 66-10 VW<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The Cougars are back in action Saturday as the compete in the Jim McCracken Invitational at Sidney High School.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent sports KENTON \u2013 Thursday\u2019s season opener was a success for the Van Wert wrestling team, as the Cougars traveled to Kenton and jumped out to a 43-0 lead before finishing off the dual meet 66-10. Individual results are as follows: The Cougars are back in action Saturday as the compete in the Jim [&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-200223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-22 22:15:34","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\/200223","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=200223"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":200224,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200223\/revisions\/200224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}