For those that didn’t see Dee’s second round match against the favorite in the weight class, Khaniev of Russia, it went something like this:
- Khaniev with a push out at ~5:40.
-Khaniev sinks in underhooks several times and is controlling the ties well at the start.
- At 4:56 Dee is warned for passivity. First warning
-At 4:24, Dee is distracted by something that fell on the mat and is talking to the ref while pointing at his right ear or cheek.
-At this point, Dee is put on the passivity clock
-Dee executes a nice ankle pick with :02 left on the passivity clock and smartly runs Khaniev out of bounds to gain a point while clearing the passivity clock with :01 left on it. Dee leads 1-1 on criteria.
-At 3:26, Dee complains to the ref about Khaniev pulling his hair.
-No significant action up to the break
-At 2:36, the Russian goes behind Dee and for a split second takes him to his knees before Dee bounces back up. The Russian coaches immediately call for two.
-They continue on their feet with Russian behind until they both step out with the action continuing until they hit the ground with the Russian behind Dee. However, the officials award a point to Dee determining the Russian stepped out first.
-The Russians challenge the takedown. Instead the refs appear to review the step out as they reverse the one point awarded. The scoring could have gone so many ways with the Russian leading 3-1 if the takedown were awarded to Dee leading 3-1 if the step out was confirmed and Russians lose the challenge. Instead it is 2-1 Khaniev which appeared to be the most wrong of all choices as it appears (from the only and bad camera angle) Khaniev did step out first.
-Instead of letting his coaches (DT and J’Den Cox) handle it, he is distracted from the match by arguing with the ref after the overturn.
-For the next 30 seconds, Dee is really aggressive. He can’t get to Khaniev and starts wrestling from his knees again.
-Forced out of bounds while grounded at 1:28. Still 1-2 score
-From 1:06 to 1:02, Khaniev clearly pulls Dee’s hair 2 times. Dee blatantly retaliates by pulling Khaniev’s hair and then shoving him. Based on hand gestures from the mat ref and the appeal made to the head table (which can be heard because that ref is sitting by Flo’s camera), a point is awarded to Khaniev for the “intentional” hair pull. 1-3 score.
-At :24, action is stopped at the edge of the mat with Khaniev forcing the action to the edge. However (again from a bad camera angle), it appears Khaniev went out of bounds while Dee never did. Point awarded to Khaniev. DT had a great angle to that edge of the mat and challenges the call. The challenge is lost and the score is 1-5.
-Dee gets in on a single and forces Khaniev out at :13. 2-5 is the final score.
Khaniev goes on to TF Wagin of Germany in their rubber match of recent results 10-0 at 5:35.
If Khaniev wins his semifinal match later this morning, Dee and Wagin will be pulled back into repechage. I believe Dee would have to beat Annaorazov of Turkmenistan and then Wagin to get into the bronze match.
At other weights wrestling today, Duke, Rademacher, and heavyweight Mirasola all made the semifinals.
