Welcome
to the South Shore Wrestling Officials Association Website!
As
the membership of the South Shore Wrestling Officials Association,
it gives us great pleasure to introduce you to our active
members, our qualifications, our State Tournament Officials,
and our annual scholarship recipients. We trust you will enjoy
the website. It is designed to help Athletic Directors find
officials for their assignments.
We
are extremely proud of our Annual Scholarship Program, the
CPT Carl Keske Memorial Scholarship. Our program was initiated
in 1970, and to our knowledge, is the oldest officials scholarship
program in the state. During the past 36 years, we have helped
over 100 area athletes get started with their college education.
In all, our association has given over $40,000 to our area
recipients.
-Roger
Stephenson, President SSWOA
-Morgan
Stanley, Sec. Treas. SSWOA
Association Meeting Information
All meeting of the SSWOA are held at the Bellevue High School
Cafeteria, 200 Oakland Ave., Bellevue, OH 44811.
Meeting dates:
October 30
November 6, 13, 20
December 3, 10
January 9
All meeting start at 7:00 pm and last just over an hour.
Interpretations
Situation: Pinning combination and stopping a match
Wrestler A put wrestler B on his back in a near-fall situation
with a cradle while the official counts to 5 for the near
fall. Eventually wrestler B bellies up and goes to his stomach
while wrestler A still maintains a locked cradle on wrestler
B. Wrestler B indicates that he is hurt and the official stops
the match. What are the correct points earned by wrestler
A?
Ruling:
Since Wrestler A still has a locked cradle and the near fall
points have not been awarded by the official, Wrestler A would
receive a four point near fall. (Three for the near-fall and
one additional point for having to stop the match). The rational
for this is that even though wrestler B has belled up and
is on his stomach, he is still technically in a pinning combination
and near-fall situation, because the official has not yet
awarded the near fall points. In this situation, the injury
to wrestler B forces wrestler A to release the pinning combination
and end the pinning situation.
Keep in mind, the 90 degree rule has no bearing in this situation.
It only applies to a situation where no near-fall points have
been earned and indicates a near-fall was imminent when the
official had to stop the match for an injury, technical violation
or illegal hold for wrestler B.
Situation: Weigh-ins and Growth Allowance
A wrestler is moving down to the 112 pound weight class on
Dec. 26th for a tournament. The wrestler weighs in at 113
pounds....can he/she take advantage of the two pound allowance
that was given on Dec. 25th if this is the first time he is
wrestling at this weigh class.
Ruling:
No.. The OHSAA Weight Monitoring Program includes a growth
allowance. A two pound growth allowance will be given on December
25. A Growth allowance may not be utilized to achieve a lower
minimum weight for a wrestler.
In order to utilize the growth allowance, a wrestler shall
compete at “scratch” weight in the desired weight
class at least once prior to using the two pound growth allowance
or any other addition pounds for continuous days of competition.
Situation: Weigh-ins and weight classes
A wrestler has worked his way down and made scratch weight
at the 112 weight class. On a particular day, he weighs in
at 115 pounds and wants to wrestle at the 125 pound weigh
class for a given match or tournament. If the wrestler competes
in the 125 pound weight class, does he/she forfeit the ability
to wrestle at the 112 pound weight?
Ruling:
No, the wrester will still be allowed to compete at the 112
pound weight class. Only if a wrestlers scratch weigh is two
weight classes above his weight class will he eliminate himself
from the lower weight class, which in this example is the
112 pound class. In this case, the wrestler is only weighing
in one weigh class above his weigh class even though he is
going to wrestle at 125 pounds.
Point of emphasis.......one of the reasons for the weigh
management program is to eliminate and discourage rapid weight
loss in wrestlers from week to week...hence the 1 1/2% per
week limitation. Coaches should discourage wrestlers from
dramatic weight change. Case in point, a wrestler should not
make scratch weight at 112 pounds one week, then move up his
actual scratch weight to 119 pounds the next week and then
back down to an actual weight of 112 pounds the next, etc.
This defeats the purpose of controlled weight loss and is
not healthy for the wrestler...in addition, it doesn't comply
with the limitation of losing more than 1 1/2% weight loss
per week.
