{"id":98891,"date":"2018-02-19T07:40:15","date_gmt":"2018-02-19T12:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=98891"},"modified":"2018-02-19T07:40:15","modified_gmt":"2018-02-19T12:40:15","slug":"steyer-bretz-place-first-at-wbl-tourney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2018\/02\/19\/steyer-bretz-place-first-at-wbl-tourney\/","title":{"rendered":"Steyer, Bretz place first at WBL tourney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Van Wert independent sports<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Led by champions Gabe Steyer and Isaiah Bretz, the host Van Wert Cougars finished fifth at the Western Buckeye League wrestling tournament on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Wapakoneta won the tournament with 146 points, followed by Ottawa-Glandorf (122.5), Shawnee (113.5), St. Marys (109) and Van Wert (106). Defiance (86), Bath (60), Kenton (44), Elida (43) and Celina (39) rounded out the order of finish.<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-94340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/WBL-logo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Steyer pinned Ottawa-Glandorf\u2019s Evan Ellerbock in 3:43 to win the 134 pound title, while Bretz captured the 140 pound title by pinning Preston Weichart of St. Marys in 5:21.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, Van Wert\u2019s Killian Sudduth finished second in the 108 pound weight class after being pinned by Clayton Drummond of St. Marys (2:15) and Josh Dorsch finished second in the 122 pound weight class after dropping a 6-2 decision to Lupe Martinez of Defiance. Malachi Battle (160 pounds) finished fourth, Trevor Spridgeon (184 pounds) finished third and Lloyd Eustler (222 pounds) finished fourth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Van Wert independent sports Led by champions Gabe Steyer and Isaiah Bretz, the host Van Wert Cougars finished fifth at the Western Buckeye League wrestling tournament on Saturday. Wapakoneta won the tournament with 146 points, followed by Ottawa-Glandorf (122.5), Shawnee (113.5), St. Marys (109) and Van Wert (106). Defiance (86), Bath (60), Kenton (44), Elida [&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-98891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-02 02:54:23","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\/98891","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=98891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98891\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}