Instant Replay Was Officially Approved

Panel members also approved an experimental rule in wrestling to allow mat-side video review during the 2012-13 season, excluding open tournaments.

Designation of the official mat-side video review system will be determined by the host institution before the beginning of competition.

The host will also determine the number of mats and the rounds the mat-side video review system will be used. If the mat-side video review will be used, the host must provide notification to participating coaches no later than weigh-ins.

Mat-side video review may be used to confirm or reverse on-the-mat decisions, except a fall.

The mat-side video review process will operate under the assumption that the ruling on the mat is correct, and only when there is indisputable video evidence that a ruling was incorrect, will a call be changed. Absent that evidence, the original ruling will stand.

Each team will be allowed one coach�s challenge per dual meet, including team advancement tournaments, to be used at the coach�s discretion.

Each team in an individual advancement tournament, excluding open tournaments, will be allowed three challenges to be used at the coach�s discretion. If a coach�s challenge is successful, the team will retain that challenge.

A coach may ask the referee to stop the match for a challenge by approaching the scorer�s table when there is no significant action and requesting that the match be stopped.


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I don't like this as an official, but I can see why it's implemented. Really though, how many officials are going to overturn their own calls, unless they completely blew the call?

I think if an official has enough guts, and has another angle, he will reverse his call. Wonder what would have happened in the Stieber-Oliver match if they could have used the replay?

I'm going to guess a No-call, just like it was in the original match. It wasn't a question of in bounds or out of bounds, etc. It was matter of control, which is not questionable (seeing a video won't matter, now on the line or off the line yes). I'd venture to guess he would never have reversed the call based on a review.

It has to be "indisputable evidence" to overturn the call just like the NFL, and from the video I've seen, nothing sticks out in my mind to overturn the call.

Just my $.02... Alex