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Finishing a TD against elite competition is certainly more than a mental issue as some have said. RbY and Fix have a combination of strength, skill, flexibility, etc that are just better than that of ADS.
Unfortunately Desanto is unlikely to ever get the benefit of the doubt from the officials.
How many guys get to put their hands on a ref and not get dinged?
I couldn't find the answer to this but looking at the 1999 brackets I would assume it was either Doug Schwab or Eric Juergens who had 10 (or more) techs.
I was just a stripling at the time but I thought Juergens was more of a low scoring type wrestler so this makes sense.
This is nationals we're talking about. Refs swallow their whistles more here than at any time in the year.
It's not a typical plan of action. Get off the board if that is what you're going to bring.
I don't know who had the techs in '99, but Juergens was never a sit-on-a-lead kind of guy. In HS he had over 100 pins (quite a bit over, I think) teched the State 2nd placer twice that year (I think he went easy on him in the finals and only beat him by 12 or something like that). I was skeptical of him until I saw him several times his senior year. The best and most dominating HS wrestler I ever saw in person, and I saw McGinnis, Kerber, Mark Schwab, Dan Knight, and others. Even in college, he wasn't a low-scoring type very often. He was a screw job by the ref (Moore jumping the start and not getting called) and a match he got ambushed (and later avenged) in, from being a 4-timer. It could have been him in '99 that had 10 techs. I would think he was more likely than Schwab.
