I was at Chanute today as well and I'll bet there was around 150 "bad" calls, easily. Can you believe that? 150 "bad" calls! There was 5 age groups, 6U 8U 10U 12U & 14U and I don't remember the final bout numbers but let's say each age group had 100 matches. That's 500 total matches. Now let's say each match goes 3 periods. Thats 1,500 periods*. Now let's assume that a Ref makes an average of 3 call each period (I think this is a low number but it's a round number). We are now at 4,500 "judgement" calls in a tournament. And we have already established that 150 of them were bad so that makes the ref's correct 96% of the time.

Maybe it's just me but I'll take 96% all day long, even if my kid ends up on the 4% side from time to time. My kids just started wrestling last year so I don't have years of expirence to draw from but I would like to say thanks too all of the tournament directors, the table workers, the towel tappers, concession workers, and especially the refs. Without you there is no place for my kids to wrestle each weekend.