As far as the Manhattan wrestlers contention that Wilcox should have let a healthier Derby wrestler take his place...he is obviously commenting without knowledge of the rules. As that would be possible in college, in high school there is no provision for refusing the default and allowing the offending wrestler to move on.
Manhattan wrestlers might be thinking collegiately when at the D1 Championships last year Scott Coleman was injured do to an illegal slam or something against Steve Mocco. Instead of staying down although he was very much hurt, they worked out a deal that Coleman would get up and they would restart the match and let about 5 seconds tick off and stop it. Mocco was ordered not to attack, and then ISU forfeited to him. I would like to see an option opened up possibly in high school, but it also gets political, because then people would be intentionally trying to hurt others.
