I felt like Danny Deshazer worked very hard all day as well on Mat 1. And on a 6u mat, there is no way you can criticize a referee trying to figure who actually has control, cause neither one of the 6u kids that are wrestling know either. Show me a ref that always gets it right, and I'll kiss your rear end.............
Like clockwork, by early Sunday morning the day after a big tourney, someone has to post how bad the refs were. Come on, they were very good on every mat I was at. Just because one call goes against your kid during the day, the whole crew sucks. Ask yourself what kind of example you are setting for your kid by allowing him to blame a loss on a referee.........
If you don't like hearing the words "squeeze harder", you probably ought to move over to basketball, cause you're going to hear it every time a kid gets put on his back. It is a brutal sport. My kindergartner has a shiner, and several scrapes and bruises, from Salina. All part of the process of toughening them up for when it counts in high school.
I agree with all the above except there WAS at least 1 particular official on mat 3 that was absolutely aweful. Not so much with judgement calls but not paying attention to the match and not knowing rules. Heck he repeatedly awarded points the entire day to the wrong wrestler. And no I'm not complaining because my kid got beat because he placed and was in the medal match. However, during one of his matches his opponent applied a full nelson, not just touched on both sides but laced his fingers and was applying pressure. Did it for 3-4 seconds as I'm yelling "full nelson". Never did stop it. When they went out of bounds I called him to the table to ask why he wouldn't call it as he was standing in plain sight of it. The guy at the table even chewed him out and told him "you HAVE to watch that and stop it" and he didn't even have a dog in the fight. The ref still didn't award the point and told me he didn't see it. Many unhappy people on that mat all day. That particular official shouldn't be officiating. Lol, during one match I was watching (not my kids) I witnessed him ask the coaches what points he should award because he didn't know.
