Jimmy hooking Heil's right leg with his own right leg, whille controlling the other leg with both hands to acccomplish the "split" he was using to stack Heil should have triggered ref to call TD imho. Heil had the crotch-lock at the top of JG's right leg, so once Jimmy hooked his right leg with his own right leg, it effectively made Heil's crotch-lock a weapon against himself much in the same way a wrestler who has a leg is turned into a weapon against themselves in a "Spladle". Once the Spladling wrestler "rolls-through" to the mat and has his opponent in the pinning position with clear control of both legs - it is a TD regardless of whether the other wrestler continues to hang onto the Spladling wrestler's leg or not (this is the leg used to "hook" opponent's other leg).
Again, the only thing Heil pulling on the crotch-lock (i.e., a crotch-lift) was doing was making the Stack "tighter" because Jimmy had Heil's right leg hooked with the same leg that Heil was pulling on (I.e., drawing "the stack" higher into the air, pulling Jimmy's hips further forward onto his upper chest & Shoulders and making Heil "flatter"). Still say the TD should have been called under the "Control Rules" for a takedown. JG's pinning combination met every rule for a TD under the Control interpretations (i.e., control of both legs, pinning position, opponent's stalemating crotch-lock neutralized and doing nothing to prevent control with no possibility of improving the opponent's position, etc..).
I think the situation is worthy of a published "interpretation" because I have seen officials ignore the "Control" rules before in regards to a "crotch-lock" or "waist-lock" -- once the other wrestler has full control of both legs, the official is supposed to ascertain whether the crotch-lock or waist-lock is doing anything to prevent "control" or if it has any potential to improve the wrestler's position.....if it is doing nothing to prevent "control" (worse in this case, it was actually helping JG and Heil was pinning himself by pulling on it) and has no hope of improving the "defensive wrestler's" position, it is supposed to be ignored and the TD awarded (which woulld have also triggered NF points for Jimmy - it also would have almost certainly precipitated Heil to let go of crotch-lock and attempt to bridge-out and turn over rather than absurdly claiming that pinning himself was a means to avoid defeat!).
Hagerty's absurd interpretation of both the TD "control" rules/interpretations and "fall" definition cost JG this match, not once but multiple times -- if he's one of the best in the business and a "HOF-worthy" Folkstyle Official, something should be published that he got it wrong on "interpretation" in a couple different ways (i.e., not granting a TD and therefore costing JG a ton of points at the least due to no TD or NF points), why he got it wrong and how it should have been called (i.e., when the TD should have been called).
Otherwise, other officials will look at this and it will enable them, if not outright encourage them, to base their future decisions simply on whether the "defensive wrestler" has maintained his defensive "crotch-lock" in an attempt to prevent the TD AND THAT IS NOT THE RULE as the OTHER WRESTLER is also permitted to IMPROVE THEIR POSITION to negate the "crotch-lock" as JG did in this instance. Simply focusing on whether the crotch-lock was engaged to the EXCLUSION of all else was a woefully WRONG INTERPRETATION of the clear Control rules and interpretations that applied imho and this situation (especially the potential importance of it in a fairly high-profile dual the "NWCA NDS Championship Dual" - i.e., #1 v #2) deserves a statement one-way or the other -- Cael & Staff clearly VEHEMENTLY disagreed with the way it was called and some clarification should be supplied as to who was correct so other officials don't apply the same "singurlarly focused" wrong interpretation (i.e., simply focusing on whether the crotch-lock was engaged which is clearly not the only criteria in the rulebook for this situation in regards to "control").
