{"id":2558,"date":"2025-03-06T02:13:24","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T02:13:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/?p=2558"},"modified":"2025-03-06T02:13:24","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T02:13:24","slug":"core-wrestling-club-competes-in-willits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/?p=2558","title":{"rendered":"CORE Wrestling Club competes in Willits"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Logan Olivares, Sampson Wetmore bring home firsts from Gatekeeper tournament<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lake County Sports on Facebook<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>WILLITS &gt;&gt; Logan Olivares and Sampson Wetmore of the CORE Wrestling Club secured first-place finishes Sunday at the Gatekeeper tournament in Willits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>CORE sent seven wrestlers to the competition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m always proud of our kids,\u201d CORE coach Thaddeus Wetmore said. \u201cThere\u2019s something about wrestling that gets lost every time we talk about the wins and losses and medals. It really is a fight without punches. These are young kids who show up and step onto the mat, without fear, knowing that they\u2019re about to be in a fight and they may be walking into a meat grinder.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Added Wetmore,\u201d Our kids are ready and welcome that fight, and I\u2019ll always be proud of them for that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Olivares won the six-and-under pee wee division (40-47 pounds) while Wetmore took top honors in the 10-and-under intermediate division (83-88 pounds).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gerardo \u201cTito\u201d Rodriguez came in second in the high school boys division (93-101 pounds). Rain Pena placed third in the 6-and-under pee wee division (40-47 pounds).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tucker Heywood finished fourth in under-12 novice division (83-89 pounds) while Georgia Emerson came in fourth in the middle school girls division (117-129 pounds). Both wrestlers went 2-2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Eric Holley placed fifth and ninth as he double-bracketed, wrestling in the 8-and-under bantam (45-49 pounds) and 8-and-under bantam (47-58 pounds) divisions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>CORE wrestlers are part of the Gladiator Brawl on Sunday at Lower Lake High School. Action begins at 9 a.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"407\" height=\"520\" src=\"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-6.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2560\" srcset=\"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-6.png 407w, https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-6-235x300.png 235w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 407px) 100vw, 407px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Logan Olivares, Sampson Wetmore bring home firsts from Gatekeeper tournament Lake County Sports on Facebook WILLITS &gt;&gt; Logan Olivares and Sampson Wetmore of the CORE Wrestling Club secured first-place finishes Sunday at the Gatekeeper tournament in Willits. CORE sent seven wrestlers to the competition. \u201cI\u2019m always proud of our kids,\u201d CORE coach Thaddeus Wetmore said. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2559,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70,61],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2558"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2558"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2561,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2558\/revisions\/2561"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}