{"id":20536,"date":"2012-02-13T04:55:54","date_gmt":"2012-02-13T09:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/?p=20536"},"modified":"2012-02-13T04:55:54","modified_gmt":"2012-02-13T09:55:54","slug":"2-cougars-earn-wbl-wrestling-titles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2012\/02\/13\/2-cougars-earn-wbl-wrestling-titles\/","title":{"rendered":"2 Cougars earn WBL wrestling titles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Van Wert independent sports<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Van Wert Cougar wrestling team finished sixth in the Western Buckeye League tournament that took place Saturday.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_20537\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20537\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/VW-wrestlers-at-WBL-tourney-2-2012-Zack-Terrin.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20537 \" style=\"border: 1px solid black\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/VW-wrestlers-at-WBL-tourney-2-2012-Zack-Terrin.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-20537\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Van Wert wrestlers Zack Burk (left) and Terrin Contreras with their banners for winning WBL weight class titles (photos by Julie Dorsch for the Van Wert independent)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Perennial WBL wrestling power Wapakoneta won the league championship with 174 points, while Elida was second with 138 points and Defiance close behind in third place with 131 points. Lima Bath was fourth with 111 points, Shawnee fifth with 96 points and the Cougars sixth with 88 points, closely followed by Celina with 86 points. The final three teams were Celina (75 points), Ottawa-Glandorf (43 points) and Kenton (36 points).<\/p>\n<p>Two Van Wert wrestlers won league championships in their weight classes. Cougar champs were Zack Burk at 126 pounds and Terrin Contreras at 285 pounds.<\/p>\n<p>Individual Van Wert results by weight class are as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>106 pounds \u2013 Corbin Schalois, 0-2<\/li>\n<li>113 pounds \u2013 Ritchie Espinoza, 0-2<\/li>\n<li>120 pounds \u2013 Reed Baxter, 0-2<\/li>\n<li>126 pounds \u2013 Zack Burk, 3-0, first<\/li>\n<li>132 pounds \u2013 Chandler Adams, 0-2<\/li>\n<li>138 pounds \u2013 Sean Dorsch, 0-2<\/li>\n<li>145 pounds \u2013 Daniel Thompson, 1-2<\/li>\n<li>152 pounds \u2013 Colten Royer, 2-2 (2 pins), fourth<\/li>\n<li>160 pounds \u2013 Jordan Daniels, 2-1, second<\/li>\n<li>170 pounds \u2013 Gabe Hill, 1-2 (1 pin)<\/li>\n<li>182 pounds \u2013 Brady Strawer, 0-2<\/li>\n<li>195 pounds \u2013 void<\/li>\n<li>220 pounds \u2013 Zach Thomas, 1-2 (1 pin)<\/li>\n<li>285 pounds \u2013 Terrin Contreras, 3-0 (3 pins), first<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Van Wert independent sports The Van Wert Cougar wrestling team finished sixth in the Western Buckeye League tournament that took place Saturday. Perennial WBL wrestling power Wapakoneta won the league championship with 174 points, while Elida was second with 138 points and Defiance close behind in third place with 131 points. Lima Bath was fourth [&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-20536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-05 15:01:52","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\/20536","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=20536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}