{"id":203524,"date":"2026-03-07T22:36:05","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T03:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=203524"},"modified":"2026-03-07T22:36:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T03:36:07","slug":"vws-bollenbacher-to-wrestle-at-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2026\/03\/07\/vws-bollenbacher-to-wrestle-at-state\/","title":{"rendered":"VW&#8217;s Bollenbacher to wrestle at state"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>VW independent sports<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Division II<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NORWALK &#8212; Breese Bollenbacher will be Van Wert\u2019s lone representative at the OHSAA Wrestling State Tournament. Wrestling in the 285 pound weight class, Bollenbacher won both of his matches on Friday to advance to Saturday\u2019s semifinals, where he lost by pin (1:10) to Celina\u2019s Cash Patrick. In the consolation semifinals, Bollebacher pinned Clear Fork\u2019s Luke Remy in 1:28, then defeated Defiance\u2019s Alex Hinojosa 4-1 to place third overall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Briggs Wallace closed out his high school wrestling career by going 3-3 and finishing sixth at 157 pounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Division III<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>TROY &#8212; Crestview\u2019s Luke Sawmiller finished his season with a sixth place finish at the Troy regional.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent sports Division II NORWALK &#8212; Breese Bollenbacher will be Van Wert\u2019s lone representative at the OHSAA Wrestling State Tournament. Wrestling in the 285 pound weight class, Bollenbacher won both of his matches on Friday to advance to Saturday\u2019s semifinals, where he lost by pin (1:10) to Celina\u2019s Cash Patrick. In the consolation semifinals, [&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-203524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-06 23:27:08","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\/203524","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=203524"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":203525,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203524\/revisions\/203525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}