How Wrestling Works Part 1

I am now going to go into a little background information on how scoring works. Now by a little I actually mean a lot. There are a lot of rules and regulations to the sport of wrestling. It is going to be overwhelming if you do not know much about wrestling but just try to stick with me and understand as much as possible. As previously discussed, there are multiple styles of wrestling all of which have different methods of scoring. I am going to focus on high school and collegiate wrestling since that is what I am familiar with. I would like to start off with the format of a match. One regulation match includes three periods. The all three periods are two minutes long in high school, but in college the first period is three minutes long. If the score is tied at the end of regulation, measures will be implemented to break the tie. The first overtime is called sudden victory. Both wrestlers will go into an overtime period which will be one minute in length with no rest between the regular match and the overtime. The overtime period will begin with both matmen in the neutral position. The wrestler who scores the first point(s) will be declared the winner. If no winner is determined by the end of the one minute overtime period, 30-second tie-breakers in the referee's position will be wrestled. A coin is then tossed to determine the wrestler who has choice. The wrestler who wins the toss may choose top, bottom, or defer (Neutral cannot be chosen). After that 30 second go is completed, another 30 second go will take place but the other wrestler will now get the choice. Whichever wrestler scores the most points during these two extra periods will be declared the winner. If the score is still tied after this, then one more ultimate tie breaker will occur that lasts for another 30 seconds. The wrestler who scored first during the two 30 second periods will get the choice of top or down. If the wrestler who is down can score a point before the time expires he/she is the winner. If the wrestler on top can hold the bottom man down for the entire 30 seconds then he/she is the winner. A winner will be declared after this tie breaker. Hopefully the format of a wrestling match is now better understood, so I will begin to explain how points are scored.