A little off topic but!!!! Everyone makes mistakes,everyone! No matter how experienced you are or how much you know the rules mistakes are made, its just a fact of life for a referee. I officiated several years ago for about 3 or 4 years it is a hard thankless job that is exactly why i stopped doing it. I have coached high school, college, and kids club for the last 18 years. The one thing I don't understand about ref's and remember I know how tough their job is, is that when they do make mistakes instead of talking about it with the coach who asks them, the referees immediately gets a defensive posture and doesn't want to listen to what you have to say. It happens all the time and I guarantee, that they know they made the mistake and don't want to admit it. Referees have a very tough job everyone understands that, but before every tournament during the coaches meetings the head ref asks all the coaches to be respectful and handle things the right way. I think the ref's should start doing the same. It is within the coaches right to raise his hand and approach the table to get clarification and to express his opinion and understanding. Alot of times when i see coaches do this the ref immediately gets an attitude and doesn't want to listen. Coaches should always respect the referee's for what they do and for their knowledge but the coaches should get the same thing in return from the referee. Just my 2 cents.

6U is very difficult if not impossible to seed. Most of the kids stay within a 50 mile range of where they live. So it is hard to tell how they stack up against the rest of the State. Alot of 6U wrestle quite a bit of novice so it is hard to tell how good they really are. Throw in the fact that they are 6 and can not or will not perform the same from one match to the next makes it harder still. Finally, most are coached to just throw headlocks, cow-catchers, and snakes, it is anybody's match when these kind of junk moves are taught to 6U. The winner is who ever fell on top. Blind Draw is the best way to go at 6U State.

Which is all the more striking since the little girl used a knee block to get the take-down.

Since her arm was so deep- worked right to a reverse-half went they went to the mat.

I watched the video and in it you can clearly see at first her hand is under the shoulder, then the young man lifts his right shoulder off the mat, then the official gets in the view as he's looking for the fall, at :50 it appears it could be a fall but we cannot see the other shoulder (but the official is right there) then at :55 he goes back to lifting his left shoulder off.

I didn't see a fall and a video this far away can be deceiving. The official was in good position to see it and apparently didn't see it.

This is just my opinion, probably not worth anything just my view.

Hey...wonder why that kshsaa official was available for the weekend in ottawa instead of being at numerous regional hs meets? I know! Probably downgraded and not invited. Bet he is free State weekend too.