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As someone who wrestled all through high school I appreciate this thread as well. It's a drastically underappreciated sport but in my opinion it's possibly the best sport there is. when you wrestle at this level, it is a part of your life 365 days/year.

Huge oversight on My part. Ill work it in more officially into another part because it is super important. See i remembered out of bound but forgot stalemates.

In writing a stalemate is a referees determination call. It occurs when neither wrestler can improve their own position without giving up position to their opponent.

So in the situation you described, the defender has cracked down, resulting in both wrestlers having locks on eachother. If either wrestler breaks their lock, theyre going to give up a TD. Since neither can actively improve, a stalemate is called.

Ill whip up some Gifs after i finish tonites article.

One thing you didn't touch on that can be a little confusing is a "stalemate". jersyhokie, I'm sure you can explain this mush better than me, but as the term suggests, it's when neither wrestler has an advantage and they stand them back up. This happens most often when both wrestlers are standing and one (the attacker as I'll call him) dives for a leg. The defender avoids being tackled, but falls on the attacker. The attacker is now belly down on the mat with the defender on top of him. My non-eloquent description would be the "ass to mouth" position. They both have a hold of a leg. It might look like the attacker has been taken down, but he has not. They basically get stuck in this position with neither wrestler able to really do anything. So the ref calls a stalemate and stands them back up with no points being awarded.

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