The more and more I go to wrestling tournaments this year the less "common sense" I have for what is an escape... Here are some examples of what I saw yesterday.
1) A kids was on his back, giving up near fall points when he slides out of bounds. Once the defensive wrestler goes out of bounds he lays on his back knowing that he cant get pinned out of bounds. The offensive wrestler tries to circle him but steps out of bounds. a moment before he steps out the defensive wrestlers rolls to his side and awarded an escape because of lack of control...
2) A kid goes optional start and attempts to cut the defensive wrestler. On the whistle the offensive wrestler steps back but the defensive wrestler never moves... after about 5 seconds the offensive wrestler just jumps back on top and continues to wrestle... and escape is never awarded.
3) From refs position a kids stands to his feet, turns and faces his opponent and breaks physically free from his opponent. A second later the offensive wrestlers shoots back in and grabs the ankle. The standing wrestler sprawls and crossfaces but and escape is never earned.
4) A kid is getting pinned in a cradle near the edge. The defensive wrestler, while still locked up in a cradle, rolls on top of the offensive wrestler... Remember the cradle is still locked... As the defensive wrestlers rolls on top the ref signals out of bounds awards the near fall points and an escape point for loss of control.
Sooo Common Sense tells me that some where in the rule book there must be a different rule for scoring escapes near the out of bounds line.
But common sense dont help me at all when escapes are not scored when your opponent are not even physically in contact... yet u can have your opponent in a position where they are not facing you, not controlling a single point, not on their feet, not able to defend themselves and yet they can get an escape just because they roll out of bounds, justified by “loss of control” of course an unarguable judgment of the official.
