Let me first say that I completely agree that if a kid isn't hurt the ref should slap the mat and end the match. We shouldn't reward a kid for crying by letting him stay in the match. One of our wrestlers lost a match earlier in the season by 1 point when he had the kid pinned twice only to have the match stopped because the other kid was upset.... But this topic does go both ways. My son was wrestling in the consolation qtrs for a chance at a state plaque when about 30 seconds into the 1st period he gets an accidental finger in the eye and falls down to his back holding his eye saying "my eye! my eye!" and gives absolutely no effort to come off of his back, the ref was quick to the mat gave it a one count and slapped the mat.....now what happened next I am far from proud of. I did not handle it the "right way" not that there was much I could really do at that point anyway, so I said some things I shouldn't have said and didn't really mean, and somewhere in the heated discussion the ref told me that he slapped the mat and then realized my boy was hurt. After I calmed down (about 4 hours later!) I wanted to believe that was how it really happened, then I watched the video....if your face is less than 12 inches away from the face of a limp kid with both hands on his eye crying my eye and you don't realize he is hurt then I don't know what it takes! Should my boy have kept fighting and got off of his back? ABSOLUTELY!!! Should I have handled it better? No doubt about it, but the "dad" came out of me and for that I am truly sorry. I think my boy learned a valuable lesson, I know I did, and I sure hope that ref reads this and looks at it a little different next time too. I don't know what the answer is on the Cry Baby Rule, but there has to be something there for the kids that are truly hurt to give them a chance to get over their injury and wrestle the whole match.