My comment was directed towards the trend of folkstyle officials getting to conservative. Gregg, you need to look in the rule book because there is nothing in the rule book about the knee hitting the mat first. It is a total judgement call and Thoman has no control over that. I don't need to stick my head anywhere to have an opinion that Folkstyle is "pussified" compared to Freestyle or Greco and even compared to a few years ago. In my opinion Thoman should have been hit with another stalling during the last 35 seconds that he ran from Brown. This would have put the match into OT and the wrestlers could have decided the win. If an official is concerned for the safety of the wrestler, blow the whistle and call potentially dangerous instead of awarding unearned points.
I too commend Thoman for continueing and not taking an automatic win. I never meant any disrespect for him as he did what he needed to do to win with this particular official.
