Iowa State Championships - Fixed Referee?

[Uptown Swinger]

Rocky Lombardi #7 was wrestling defending state champ Wyatt Wriedt #8 in the 3A 220 lbs finals.
Lombardi handed Wriedt his only loss of the year a month ago , and Wriedt gave Lombardi his only loss in December.

The ref hits Lombardi with the worst stall call ever to send the match into OT.
Then the ref calls a bad Take Down call to end the match and Wreidt wins!

Hard to believe that a ref working the TX State Finals Championship match sucked that bad.
Did this ref get paid?
Did he have something against Lombardi or his coach?

Link to video highlights of the bad calls:
http://www.flowrestling.org/article...get-a-state-title-taken-from-him#.WLRVpDhiZ4R

 

[Pliny Pete]

Wrestling is fake bro

 

[DoctorTaco]

Wrestling is fake bro

it is known

 

[DoctorTaco]

 

[riddleofsteel]

Happened in Iowa not Texas.
Sprawling to defend a takedown attempt isn't stalling.

 

[Grrrr]

Shit call by ref on stalling. 4 seconds left in the match and the guy gets hit with a stall in the middle of a sprawl.
And the takedown looked more like a scramble off an attempted takedown to me. There didn't seem to be any control to grant the 2 points.

 

[Grrrr]

I didn't know adults watched high school sports.

I still watch and follow high school wrestling. Several kids that came through the youth program that my kids are in now are heading to states. Others are wrestling D1 and D2 on scholarships now. The high school and college wrestlers come back to the practice room and help out with the young guys when they can. It makes for a close knit communit.

 

[Te Huna Matata]

Watched the clip a few days ago. Need to see more of the match before determining if it was legit or bullshit. But it looks like bullshit.

 

[Sir Galahad]

Stalling is a technique if done with some acting skills.

 

[Grrrr]

Stalling is a technique if done with some acting skills.

Agreed. But with 4 seconds left in the match it didn't even really leave time to stall. Not to mention the kid was sprawling a takedown.

 

[Uptown Swinger]

Stalling is a technique if done with some acting skills.

 

[Uptown Swinger]

Agreed. But with 4 seconds left in the match it didn't even really leave time to stall. Not to mention the kid was sprawling a takedown.

And he didn't wait 4 seconds to call it - he called it right away.

 

[Sir Galahad]

Agreed. But with 4 seconds left in the match it didn't even really leave time to stall. Not to mention the kid was sprawling a takedown.

I was in the Drama Club in high school so I'm guilty. I only stalled if I was leading in the last period.

 

[PolishHeadlock]

An unjustified stall call in Iowa? Crazy....

 

[Grrrr]

And he didn't wait 4 seconds to call it - he called it right away.

Agree. It does look Shady.

 

[Fraz]

Wrestling was invented so guys had an excuse to oil check each other without coming out.

 

[Chesten_Hesten]

Damn, Iowa no less!

 

[Sir Galahad]

 

[Uptown Swinger]

An unjustified stall call in Iowa? Crazy....

What do you mean?
Is this common in Iowa?

 

[PolishHeadlock]

What do you mean?
Is this common in Iowa?

They love to badger refs into calling stalling in the 3rd.