Official’s

[cooper]

I have been around wrestling for many years and have done my share of yelling during matches at officials. Some warranted some just cause my guy lost or call went against him but overall D4 has had some really good officials to go along with wrestling. However, getting to watch some teams I never got to last year with all videos live feeds and attending wrestling this year. District 4 officials are the most incompetent group
of officials I have ever witnessed. Refs who can barely get down on the mat, and not because of age, watching wrestlers hold kids in pinning combinations flat on their back and the ref sliding around for 20 seconds to get a look, allowing kids to literally sit on ground between periods but giving no stalling calls to get up and back to center, then same official gives a stalling to a wrestler who takes a step backward off whistle in first period 20 seconds into match, and takedowns, dear lord, I saw kids with both feet covered, on top under front headlock, and bottom guy has one had on leg and no two.

Referees need to realize that reason the old timers were good is because they realized it was not about them. It’s about the match and the wrestles. The head ref for D4 and Chairman should be embarrassed of this performance.

[socowrestler11]

I want to say as a former athlete the fact that these refs have messed up so many matches son such an important day for these young men is and atrocity. The fact we have calls being made when they shouldn't and then those exact calls not being made when it is very apparent. I watched many matches today get taken away from kids by piss poor officiating that's not fair to these kids. The officiating of the district especially district 2 really needs to be looked into. The fact some kids careers end at these tournament and they lose on bad calls is messed up and we need to really evaluate the talent of these refs cause most are not good and a few are just flat out terrible. 

[cooper]

It only got worse as night went on the two officials who by far were the worst I have ever witnessed nearly got a wrestler from Danville injured during a 3rd and 4th place match. Did not stop a potentially dangerous and allowed a slam to occur. The D4 official in that group should not be allowed to ref elementary let along High-school Regionals have witnessed him before he is beyond incompetent.

The crowd was out of control yesterday and I attribute much of that to the referees. So many bad calls and missed calls when matches came up you could feel the anger in the fans and coaches in anticipation of a bad call.

D4 and D2 need to get it together or allow someone else to take over.