Because Coach Malay, as you said Tyler kept trying to returning him to the mat. That is not stalling. In college it would have been positive riding time. The ref told the coach that he was hanging on to the legs, which he was not! He also was not driving his opponent out of bounds.

The ref also let the the same thing go on,for the whole third period and then dinged Kester for stalling with only 20 seconds left in an attempt to give the match to his opponent, however Kester quickly cut him and took him down to tie it up.

You might be one of 2 people in the building that thinks it was right for the ref to simply give the match away in the state semi finals.

But yes, it was very poor coaching he should have cut him and took him down. Kester took him down twice in a matter of seconds.