{"id":202691,"date":"2026-02-15T21:48:51","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T02:48:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=202691"},"modified":"2026-02-15T21:48:52","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T02:48:52","slug":"crestview-second-at-nwc-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2026\/02\/15\/crestview-second-at-nwc-tournament\/","title":{"rendered":"Crestview second at NWC tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>VW independent sports<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>COLUMBUS GROVE &#8212; Bluffton won the team title at the 2025-2026 Northwest Conference wrestling tournament while Crestview was the runner-up. The tournament was held Saturday at Columbus Grove High School.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Luke Sawmiller (157 pounds) was Crestview\u2019s lone individual champion, earning it with a 7-4 decision over Columbus Grove\u2019s Collin Sautter in the finals. Robert Tyas was the runner-up at 126 pounds after falling to Bluffton\u2019s Branden Cross in the finals. Grant Grubb finished third at 113 pounds with a pin of Lima Central Catholic\u2019s Austin McCain (3:01).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lincolnview finished eighth in the team standings and the Lancers had an individual champion with Daniel Clark\u2019s pin (:46) of Ben Hawkins of Allen East in the finals of the 215 pound weight class. Ethan Renner was the runner-up at 165 pounds after being pinned by Spencerville\u2019s Keaton Jacobs (2:44) in the finals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bluffton finished with 204 team points, followed by Crestview (189), Allen East (180.5), Lima Central Catholic (163), Spencerville (131), Columbus Grove (83.5), Delphos Jefferson (75) and Lincolnview (70).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent sports COLUMBUS GROVE &#8212; Bluffton won the team title at the 2025-2026 Northwest Conference wrestling tournament while Crestview was the runner-up. The tournament was held Saturday at Columbus Grove High School. Luke Sawmiller (157 pounds) was Crestview\u2019s lone individual champion, earning it with a 7-4 decision over Columbus Grove\u2019s Collin Sautter in the [&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-202691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-07 21:07:12","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\/202691","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=202691"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":202692,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202691\/revisions\/202692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}