First to proud mom,

Although I can certainly appreciate they way you feel over being a victim of this circumstance NFHS rule 3-1-8 clearly states that "The referee shall not use TV monitoring, replay, or other video equipment in making decisions related to the match." So what I am telling you is that the head ref who looked at the tape was wrong in doing so.

Coach Craig

I myself personally will not allow a wrestler to take a time out just to get a drink of water, however if they do indicate injury and I feel like it is warranted I will grant the time-out, at this point they are free to take a drink, blow their nose, any of these thing during their 1:30 seconds they are allowed.

Gibby, you are absolutly correct when you mentioned that a coach can be removed from the premesis for inciting their kid to take a time out when they are not injured. This is considered unethical and thus unsportsmanlike and will be penalized accordingly But I can't say that I have ever heard a coach actually yell at their wrestler to tell the ref he's hurt. I had a situation this past weekend where a kid was winning by two points they were neutral his opponent got a deep double in on him and he was going straight to his back he indicated blood to me I saw it and I stopped the match. By rule I had to give the takedown because the oppoenent already secured it, I also had to give two near fall points because they were immenant. The kids coaches thanked me and told me they knew I had to do what i did. I have however heard a coach tell his wrestler not to get up after he was hurt by an illegal move and thus he won the match by default ( There was a situation like this that happened to a Concordia high school kids several years back ). I do commonly hear kids coaches tell their wrestler who is near the edge of the mat to "look where they are at" and "Just a few more feet" Its fairly obvious what they mean but you sort of have to be lenient on that unless the top wrestler is physically tryingto pull them back ono the mat, its then a technical violation on the bottom.

Wrestlingparent, the situation you described would be a textbook definition of unsportsmanlike conduct. if he pulled his own head scarf off to avoid going to his back the ref should not have stopped the match because you can't stop a match when significant action or points are immenant. If he did stop the match and he saw him pull the scarf off then he should have awarded a point to the other wrestler for unsportsmanlike conduct.