What exactly constitutes "fleeing the mat"? If my opponent chooses bottom and then spends the entire period army-crawling straight forward to get safely out of bounds for restart after restart, and this continues 10-15 times for an entire period and he does nothing else, does not try to stand up, etc., isn't that fleeing? I assume that he knows he isn't getting out on me and is just trying not to get turned and keep it close(?) Why is fleeing the mat so rarely called? Thanks gentleman.

not my area of expertise, but I would consider that to be stalling, where I see fleeing as more of a sudden act in an attempt to prevent your opponent from scoring (be it a takedown or escape)--which I do agree could be called more, but the fear is in a stand up toward edge, I have seen fleeing called on offense or defense when I may have thought it was the opposite

3Periods: You must have seen the SWC championship (119?) where one wrestler tried to hop out of bounds while the opponent tried (successfully) to pull him back in to complete the takedown. That's fleeing!

nowa- heres another one- what happens if your coach didnt go to the seeding meeting for states?

from a strategic view, it means you had no chance to improve your original seed. from a scheduling pt, much is done for next yr there. from a responsibility view, it is unacceptable. from a dollar view, may be a ciac fine and letter to ad re: coach duties

Jon,
Sent a response to your e-mail. Nowa pretty much said what I just sent you.

Coach Strahowski

thanks for the response, but on the seeding site, im not seeded at all. Just wondering if that would change on friday at weigh ins.

oops- thanks coach, got the information i needed from your email.

Jmik,

Ouch! What school are you from? Are you a varsity wrestler who was supposed to wrestle in the states? If this is the case, your coach really dropped the ball on this one. You might be out of luck if you aren't on the seeding sheet on the CIAC website. I hope there was a good reason for your coach not to make the meeting because if I was your parent or the school I'd be very disapointed in him! Good luck!

Jon,
You weren't on the seeding sheet, the coach and AD didn't send them in. I think they did the same thing last year.

Thanks alot guys, got what i needed to know. Coach- good luck to your team at states.