What kind of call was that???

He was robbed!

Another weekend...Another wrestling tournament.

Bobby had to work and was unable to go to this weekend's wrestling tournament. He can't stand it when he has to miss one. We have to call him after every match with updates.

Andrew did great. He got a bye the first round. He pinned his first and second opponents in the first minute. Now it was time for the championship match. At the beginning of the third round the score was still 0-0. All through the third round Andrew had to keep his opponent down. As soon as the buzzer sounded to signal the end of the match, this official (some high school kid) awarded the opponent an escape point. One point. Andrew's coach was MAD! However, a coach is really not allowed to question an official's judgment. So, this official, Andrew's coach and the other guy's coach (who was his father) argued about it for a few seconds. With Andrew's coach coming out of it yelling, "YOU'RE WRONG!"

I had two coaches from completely different teams standing right behind me saying, "Ain't no way that was an escape point! They never lost contact." Even another coach from this kid's own team (who happens to also coach the Olympic team) and was sitting right next to the kid's father and said it was not an escape and they should have gone into overtime. But what do you think the kid's father is going to say? Of course he's going to be a jerk about it and came out of the argument clapping and nodding at his son. Are you kidding me? Coaches all over that mat were shocked, but this high school kid has final say. Bobby watched the video this afternoon and couldn't believe it.

Now, I'm not one of those moms that is going to start yelling and tell the coach what I think about what just happened. I just quietly sit and video the match. OK, not always quiet, sometimes you might hear me yell on the video, but never at a coach or official. We let Andrew know that he did great along with several other coaches. They told him he didn't lose that match.

The kids are usually pretty good at being friendly at the tournaments. They will run around and play all day and then get out there and wrestle then run around and play some more. Andrew doesn't talk to this kid much and I'm not sure why. The guy that he wrestled a lot last year couldn't understand why Andrew was being nice to him. He had the mind-set of "you're the enemy" most of the time. Finally near the end of the season, he started warming up to the other wrestlers and talking with them more.

Well, now that I've vented about the bad call, I'll get over it, move on and look forward to a rematch next weekend. :)

I don't have any pictures to post right now because I'm always videoing. I'll try to get some though.