What are your thoughts with these new/updated rules?
New Rule - 5205a allows an offensive wrestler to request a neutral position restart by signaling his desire to a referee.
112a, gives tournament directors an additional option, allowing them to institute a random draw for the championship final matches in an individual regularseason or state championship tournament series. Previously, this option existed only in dual meets.
311 affords referees a new choice in attire, permitting them to wear a gray shirt with black pinstripes.
664a1 and 5a1, reverting to wording in the 2005 rules book, which specified that a scoring error by the timekeeper, scorer or referee can be corrected as long the wrestler or coach remains in the mat area. No longer must a scoring correction be made before the start of the next period.
5311 has been adjusted to penalize the head coach if a wrestler reports to the scorer's table and is not in proper uniform, not properly groomed, not properly equipped or not ready to wrestle.
644 now specifies that any coach or contestant has the prerogative to default a match at any time by informing the referee.
The committee approved a new rule, 425, which requires wrestlers with braces or other special orthodontic devices to wear a tooth and mouth protector. The committee clarified Rule 423,
which now states that a wrestler with a suspected communicable skin disease must have a physician fill out an approved form from either the NFHS or a state association affirming that the athlete's participation will not be harmful to any opponent before the participant in question is allowed to wrestle.
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I like that we can now wear the gray & white stripes!
It will be interesting to see how the new neutral position start will go.... seems like it will make the matches much longer in length (time wise...)
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