@SonnyAbeFan
You're messing things up a bit. In your defense, pretty much every match I ref, a coach or a wrestler will tell me what a rule is, or phrase things like "isn't the rule XYZ," and pretty much every single time they get some aspect of it wrong.
I'm not a college ref; I'm a high school and youth ref. That said, the the rule book for those levels is pretty much written the same way as the college rule book. It takes a little bit of time to get used to how the rules are presented in the rule book, but most refs figure it out in time.
Rule 2, Section 16, Art. 4 is addressing the 1st tiebreaker. Rule 2, Section 16, Art. 3 talks about if no winner is determined during the 2-minute sudden-victory period, and also which wrestler has the choice of positions. Art. 3 also specifies that the two tiebreaker periods will be wrestled to their entirety unless a fall, TF, default or disqualification occurs.
The sentence in Art. 4 that appears to be giving you problems is: "The competitor with the greater number of points at the conclusion of both tiebreaker periods, or who is awarded a fall, technical fall, default, disqualification or has a net riding time advantage of at least one second, is declared the winner." What that's saying is:
- "at the end of both tiebreakers, the wrestler with the most points" (and since points carry over from regulation, but RT does not, that means the wrestler that outscored their opponent in the two tiebreakers) "wins the dual." This is pretty straightforward -- whoever scores more points during the two tiebreakers wins the match
- since the first clause includes "at the conclusion of both tiebreaker periods," the second clause ("or who is awarded a fall, technical fall, default, disqualification") has to be included, since Art. 3 specified that "The two 30-second tiebreaker periods shall be wrestled in their entirety unless a fall, technical fall, default or disqualification occurs." Basically, the second clause is saying that the winner won't be based on most points at the end of both tiebreakers (as the first clause stated), if any of the four incidents occurred during either tiebreaker which would cause the tiebreaker to end before both tiebreakers had been completed to their entirety
- "or has a net riding time advantage of at least one second, is declared the winner." This, the third clause, indicates that if the two wrestlers were tied after the two tiebreakers (clause one), or a pin, TF, default, or DQ did not occur during either tiebreaker (clause two), then if either wrestler has a net riding time advantage they will be declared the winner.
If there is no net riding time advantage (clause 3 of Art. 4), then we move on to Rule 2, Section 17, Art. 1 Executing the Second Round of Overtime.
Hopefully, that enables you to sleep tonight.
