{"id":202099,"date":"2026-01-29T21:35:36","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T02:35:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=202099"},"modified":"2026-01-29T21:35:37","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T02:35:37","slug":"cougars-wrestlers-fall-to-roughriders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2026\/01\/29\/cougars-wrestlers-fall-to-roughriders\/","title":{"rendered":"Cougars wrestlers fall to Roughriders"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

VW independent staff\/submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Western Buckeye League wrestling action at Van Wert High School on Thursday, St. Marys Memorial came away with a 44-33 win over the  Cougars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Van Wert was led by Owen Bates (No. 6 in the state) who won by a 16-2  technical fall over Cayden McCullough (No. 17). Individual Results are as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

106 – Logan Neargarder (SM) fall 1:23 over Alianna Estrada\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

113 – Owen Bates (VW) 16-0 technical fall over Cayden McCullough\u00a0 (SM) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

120 – Chace Luedeke (SM) fall 3:48 over Heath Calvelage (VW)\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

126 – Ryan Wallace (VW) fall :51 over Wesly Klosterman (SM)                     <\/p>\n\n\n\n

132 – Mikey Hoehn (VW) forfeit                                                                 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

138 – Jax VanGundy (SM) 18-3 technical fall over Roman Martin\u00a0(VW) \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

144 – Dyllan Fink (SM) fall 3:13 over Gavin Gonzalez (VW)\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

150 – Zach Myers (SM) 9-6 decision over Caleb Bledsoe (VW)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

157 – Devon Burker (VW) 16-3 major decision over Noah Bruce\u00a0(SM)\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

165 – Briggs Wallace (VW) fall 1:10 over Christian Carter (SM)\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

175 – Tyler Holsinger (SM) fall :59 over Carter Heath (VW)\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

190 – Auston Welker (VW) forfeit\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

215 – Zaden Williams (SM) forfeit                                                             <\/p>\n\n\n\n

285 – Matt Murray (SM) forfeit                                                                   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Cougars (6-6, 3-4 WBL) are back in action next Thursday on the road as they travel to Ottawa-Glandorf to take on the Titans in a WBL match.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

VW independent staff\/submitted information In Western Buckeye League wrestling action at Van Wert High School on Thursday, St. Marys Memorial came away with a 44-33 win over the  Cougars. Van Wert was led by Owen Bates (No. 6 in the state) who won by a 16-2  technical fall over Cayden McCullough (No. 17). Individual Results […]<\/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-202099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-07 21:04:53","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\/202099","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=202099"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":202100,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202099\/revisions\/202100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}