Wrestling can be a very confusing exercise, especially if you have no experience. If you are a bystander or parent, you will need to understand how the scoring system works. This usually causes quite a bit of confusion. Although wrestling is a personal sport, in high school and college, they set up a scoring system so that teams can compare with each other.

The following are the rules for the team score scoring system.

Your team gets a three-point decision.

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Your team scored 4 points to make a major decision.

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A technical drop gives your team 5 points.

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Your team scored 6 points.

The decision is whether the wrestler wins 7 points or less. Some examples are if the wrestler defeats the opponent by four to three or seven to zero.

Whenever a wrestler scores more than 7 points but less than 15 points against his opponent, his team will receive bonus points. This is called a major decision. So if the score is 8 points to zero,…

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