{"id":203795,"date":"2026-03-13T18:45:25","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T23:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=203795"},"modified":"2026-03-13T18:45:32","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T23:45:32","slug":"bollenbacher-at-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2026\/03\/13\/bollenbacher-at-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Bollenbacher at state&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"499\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Breese-Bollenbacher-II-2026.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-203796\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Van Wert\u2019s Breese Bollenbacher has River Valley\u2019s Drew Goldberg (above) on the mat during Friday\u2019s opening round of the state wrestling tournament, while below, Bollenbacher is locked up with Jackson\u2019s Grant Kennedy. Unfortunately, Goldberg came back to pin Bollenbacher in 5:32 in the first round of their Division II 285 pound match, then Kennedy won 4-1 in the consolation round, ending Bollenbacher\u2019s season at 27-10. <em>Photos courtesy of Chad Hirschy<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"550\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Breese-Bollenbacher-2026.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-203797\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Breese-Bollenbacher-2026.jpg 550w, https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Breese-Bollenbacher-2026-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Van Wert\u2019s Breese Bollenbacher has River Valley\u2019s Drew Goldberg (above) on the mat during Friday\u2019s opening round of the state wrestling tournament, while below, Bollenbacher is locked up with Jackson\u2019s Grant Kennedy. Unfortunately, Goldberg came back to pin Bollenbacher in 5:32 in the first round of their Division II 285 pound match, then Kennedy won [&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-203795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-22 21:58:13","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\/203795","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=203795"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":203798,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203795\/revisions\/203798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}