You Make The Call

Sooooo is David Zeppetelli like famous now cause Im still pissed

return to the mat was beyond normal aggression and somewhat out of control therefore a slam.

his feet didnt leave the ground. when i was in high school, guys would finish like this alot. and now, in college, i see finishes like this all the time. not illegal at all

if u think thats a slam then u never wrestled in ur life, stop being woman its wrestling not soccor its called a nice double get over it

if you lift someone from the mat you must return them safely THAT YOU CRZY PEOPLE IS A SLAM not a hard double not just a good double but A SLAM

whoever says it happens in college every day. you, my good men, are correct. except one thing. those are 20 year old men! these kids are 15. think about if he was your son wrestling and that happened

that was clearly not a slam, the kid brought him down with a nice hard double. the kid doesn't have to cry about it. it is wrestling, it is suppose to be physical.

def a slam. rule book says the knee of the wrestler that is performing the takedown has to touch one knee to the mat before returning the other wrestler to the mat.

clean takedown, happens in college every day

obviously not a slam

No slam. Good hard double. Watch carefully. Struble had a free left hand and could have easily posted to ease return, but he didn't. Yes, guy doing the lift has responsibility to bring opponent safely to mat but opponent also has responsibility to protect himself. Zeppetelli did his part, easing return by hitting his knee rather than leaving his feet and driving his shoulder into the ribs (a textbook slam). Struble didn't protect himself and he could have. Too many kids today are looking to "funk out" in these situations, going for crotch locks, diving for legs and looking to "Iowa roll", etc. and are putting themselves in bad/dangerous positions. Hard to protect a kid when the kid isn't protecting himself.

ConanNY - Correct Call, I was wrong ...Thanks for the correction, It truly is a matter of interpretation by the Ref as to what is Unecessary Force...In this case it looked like the Ref waited til he saw evidence of injury to conclude that there was unecessary force...GO Figure????

For whatever reason when I wreslted the interpretation was that if you knee hit the mat first, that you were not using excessive force.
The Ruling
5.8.3 Slam. The term “slam” is interpreted as lifting and bringing an opponent
to the mat with unnecessary force. This infraction may be committed by
a contestant in either the top or bottom position on the mat and during a
takedown. When a contestant lifts the opponent off the mat and brings that
wrestler to the mat with excessive force, a slam shall be called without
hesitation after the situation occurs.

Just a good, hard finish. The kids head didn't snap back on the mat and he continued to wrestle so I would say no slam.

No his back knee was down at the exact time he slammed him

Borderline. Good double. Elevation high. Slam- A wrestler throws his opponent down with unnecessary force without falling to the mat himself. Dropped opponent to his hip hip using gravity. No slam.