That is amazing to pull that out of the hat. There it is cropped a little - Do you know where Osama is located?

Never had a body fluid issue like that! I think you stop the match and clean everyone up as descrete as possible.

a college match i officiated the poor guys singlet ripped at the butt- I had compassion and turned him around on the starting position so the crowd didnt have to view everything. His teamates were rolling on the floor.

Thanks!

I just did a Google Image search for "Kansas Kid's Wrestling" and there it was! I tried the same thing for Osama and think I have him located!

I have seen one........totally gross, especially how it was handled. Two wrestlers mid match, kid has white singlet on, has "loose accident"......the kids coach threw him his gym shorts to cover up. match back on. I felt bad for both, but the other kid, oooh......I would of not wanted to continue rolling with him. Poo pants won....came to next match in different singlet. I thought the match should of been stopped, and mat cleaned, kid cleaned.

Thanks a bunch. I thought I was right on that & based a lot on what Chris & Jason pointed out...

Just goes to show a ref can be right every once in a while

Several years back (won't identify the tournament nor school) but there was a bout of stomach flu that was making the rounds and a wrestler was wearing a light colored singlet. As the match progressed a brown spot appeared and slowly grew through the 1st period. At the conclusion of the 1st period we started his 90 second injury time and he ran to the restroom to change and get what he could out of his system. He made it back within his injury time and we continued wrestling. this wrestler eventually stuck his opponent in the 3rd period and ran off the mat "before I explode"...I didn't have it in my heart to hit him for unsportsmanlike conduct for not participating in the post-match procedure. He did come back later and shook my hand, apologized like crazy and even sought out his opponent and coach to shake their hand and apologize as well.

Not something I've ever had happen before nor since. BTW: neither coach questioned me on starting the 1:30 minutes of injury time to correct it. Bowden's nicer, to give 5 minutes or more, if I read it right...

Outstanding job!

Years ago at the GC Invite (now the Rocky Welton Invite) during the last round on Friday night a wrestler was in a white singlet and had a loose accident. The official chose to handle it like an equipment repair (this was in the days before blood time) and the wrestler was given the time for equipment repair to change his singlet. He immediately left the mat and went to the locker room to change his singlet but could not (or chose not to!) return in the allotted time (3 minutes?) and the match was forfeited. Unfortunately, his coach disagreed over how the incident had been handled and after being told his wrestler was in fact done, he, the coach decided to stage a protest of the call by going to the middle of the mat and sitting down.

The coach's behavior caused all who had not known what had happened to take notice and the story went around the gym like it was on fire-wire. Some of the other wrestlers on the team went out and convinced their coach to get off the mat. He was dinged with an unsportsmanlike penalty; maybe two as I think he had to leave the gym for the rest of the evening.

I felt really, really bad for the kid; he was mortified twice; once by the incident and second by the fact his coach brought so much attention to it. If I remember correctly the kid went home that night and did not return for the Saturday matches.

The moral to the story is to have a dark singlet! What you cant see cant hurt you!

Back to the thread.

Lets send some new photos of HIGH SCHOOL wresters for Mr Bowden to give to the webmaster for the site.

The give away was too many people on the floor (KSHSAA would never allow that) and two clocks on one mat.