{"id":202557,"date":"2026-02-10T21:26:30","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T02:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=202557"},"modified":"2026-02-10T21:26:32","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T02:26:32","slug":"bollenbacher-pin-clinches-win-for-vw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2026\/02\/10\/bollenbacher-pin-clinches-win-for-vw\/","title":{"rendered":"Bollenbacher pin clinches win for VW"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>VW independent sports\/submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Van Wert was able to end wrestling&#8217;s regular season on a high note in the Cougars Den when they beat the Shawnee Indians 41-39 on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Cougars trailed 39-35 and it came down to the last match of the night, 285 pounds. Senior Breese Bollenbacher was able to pin Xhaidan Coleman in 4:54 to solidify&nbsp;a winning season for the Cougars. The Cougars finish the dual season 8-6 (5-4 WBL).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The guys wrestled well,&#8221; head coach Ben Collins said. &#8220;We told them it would come down to bonus points and it did &#8211; we had more bonus point wins than they did. Breese is coming off an injury and seems to be rounding back into wrestling shape. As a whole, the seniors did what they needed to do tonight to help our team get a victory.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>106 &#8212; Wesley Jenkins (S) fall :31 over Alianna Estrada\u00a0(VW)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>113 &#8212; Owen Bates (VW) Fall 2:12 over Dylan Melson\u00a0(S) \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>120 &#8212; Gabe Ditton (S) fall 1:39 over Jillian Sempkowski (VW)\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>126 &#8212; Ryan Wallace (VW) fall 3:16 over Kestahn Jones\u00a0(S) \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>132 &#8212; Roman Martin (VW) injury default over Tate Ditto (S)\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>138 &#8212; Mikey Hoehn (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 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>144 &#8212; Grant Hadding (S) 11-7 decision over Gavin Gonzalez\u00a0(VW) \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>150 &#8212; Alejandro Reyes (S) fall 3:49 over Devon Burker(VW)\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>157 &#8212; Briggs Wallace (VW) 18-3 technical fall over Cole Brickner (S)\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>165 &#8212; Nate Hill (VW) fall 1:37 over Wesley Stimmel\u00a0(S)\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>175 &#8212; Gabriel Myers (S) fall 3:28 over Carter Heath (VW)\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>190 &#8212; Zach Kreider (S) fall 1:12 over Auston Welker\u00a0(VW)\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>215 &#8212; Jackson Page (S) 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 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>285 &#8212; Breese Bollenbacher (VW) fall 4:54 over Xhaidan Coleman\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The Cougars are back in action at the WBL tournament at St. Marys Memorial on Saturday, February 21.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent sports\/submitted information Van Wert was able to end wrestling&#8217;s regular season on a high note in the Cougars Den when they beat the Shawnee Indians 41-39 on Tuesday night. The Cougars trailed 39-35 and it came down to the last match of the night, 285 pounds. Senior Breese Bollenbacher was able to pin [&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-202557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-07 08:38:27","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\/202557","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=202557"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":202558,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202557\/revisions\/202558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}