{"id":200470,"date":"2025-12-11T22:32:31","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T03:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=200470"},"modified":"2025-12-11T22:32:32","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T03:32:32","slug":"cougars-grapplers-rally-past-elida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2025\/12\/11\/cougars-grapplers-rally-past-elida\/","title":{"rendered":"Cougars grapplers rally past Elida"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>VW independent sports\/submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the home opener, the Van Wert wrestling\u00a0team came away with a 46-30 WBL victory against the Elida Bulldogs on Thursday. The Cougars found themselves in an early hole but were able to start digging their way out of it with a fall by senior Carter Bledsoe (150) and a match-sealing fall by sophomore Max Heuerman (190).\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>106 &#8211; Nathan Cummans (E) fall :35 over Alianna Estrada (VW), 6-0 Elida<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>113 &#8211; Double forfeit<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>120 &#8211; Owen Bates (VW) tech fall 19-4 over Brody Sherrick,\u00a06-5 Elida<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>126 &#8211; Kamar Morris (E) fall :18 over Jillian Sempkowski,\u00a012-5 Elida<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>132 &#8211; Josiah Shoup (E) fall 1:17 over Ryan Wallace, 18-5 Elida<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>138 &#8211; Roman Martin (VW) tech fall 19-4 over Doug Noble (E),18-10 Elida<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>144 &#8211; Joseph Sommer (E) fall 1:14 over Gavin Gonzalez\u00a0 (VW), 24-10 Elida<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>150 &#8211; Carter Bledsoe (VW) fall 3:36 over Chase Rhine\u00a0(VW), 24-16 Elida<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>157 &#8211; Briggs Wallace (VW) fall 2:26 over Connor Wita\u00a0(E), 24-22 Elida<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>165 &#8211; Devon Burker (VW) fall :54 over Trevor Maxwell\u00a0(E), 28-24 VW<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>175 &#8211; Braxton Hoover (E) forfeit,\u00a030-28 Elida<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>190 &#8211; Max Heuerman (VW) fall :30 over JD Sweeney (E),\u00a034-30 VW<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>215 &#8211; Auston Welker (VW) forfeit, 40-30 VW<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>285 &#8211; Breese Bollenbacher (VW) fall 3:07 over Adrian Timmerman (E), 46-30 VW<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The Cougars are back in action on Saturday with the varsity competing at the Coldwater Cavalier Invitational and the junior varsity competing at Lincolnview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent sports\/submitted information In the home opener, the Van Wert wrestling\u00a0team came away with a 46-30 WBL victory against the Elida Bulldogs on Thursday. The Cougars found themselves in an early hole but were able to start digging their way out of it with a fall by senior Carter Bledsoe (150) and a match-sealing [&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-200470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-22 23:43:02","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\/200470","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=200470"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":200471,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200470\/revisions\/200471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}