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...o the offensive wrestler though. If you are taken down by your opponent then you have a chance to score an escape or a reversal. An escape is scored by escaping the control of your opponent. This is done by coming up to your feet and facing your opponent. You are awarded one point an escape. A reversal is just as it sounds. It is scored by gaining control of your opponent while he is in control of you. A reversal is scored the same as a takedown. You are given two points for reversing your opponent. That is basically the only ways to score in collegiate wrestling. As with every sport there are rules that must be followed while competing. If you break the rules then you are penalized. Common ways of being penalized are loss of position and giving away points to your opponent. Loss of position can happen in two ways. If the wrestlers are in the neutral position (wrestling from their feet), then the match is stopped and the offending wrestler is put on the mat with his opponent put in control of him. Another way of position being taken away is when you are in control of your opponent and you break a rule. When this happens the match is stopped, your opponent is released, and wrestling is resumed from the neutral position. Points are given to your opponent when your break such rules as locking your hands, illegal holds, and unsportsmanlike conduct. There are many other rules that can be broken but those are the most common. In collegiate wrestling you have three regular periods, one overtime period, and a tie-breaker to defeat your opponent. The first period always starts in the neutral position with the wrestlers on their feet facing each other. In college this period is lasts three minutes. All of the divisions lower than college have a two minute first period. At the end of the first period a disc is flipped to decide who gets choice at the beginning of the second period. The winner of the flip can decide whether they want to start the second period in the neutral position, on bottom, on top, or they can defer to third period and give there opponent the choice in the second period. Once the second period has ended then the choice goes to the wrestler who did not decide at the beginning of the second period. If the score is tied at the end of the third period then the match will go to overtime. The first overtime is the same length as the first period. The wrestlers start in the neutral position and the first person to score wins the match. If no one scores during the first overtime then the match will go to the tie-breaker. The tie-breaker consists of two thirty second periods. For the first tie-breaker one wrestler will be down and the other wrestler will be on top. They will wrestle for thirty seconds and then there position is flipped. If the match is still tied at the end of the tie-breaker then the referee checks to see which wrestler has rode his opponent for the longer length of time. Whoever has the most riding time then wins the match. No wrestling match ends in a tie; there is always a winner and a loser. Collegiate wrestling competition takes place either at duals or tournaments. In a dual the competition consists of two teams. The teams wrestle their varsity head to head against each other. Each team consists of ten wrestlers at a different weight class. The weight classes are 125, 133, 141, 149, 157, 165, 174, 184, 197 and 285. To be able to wrestle, the wrestler has to make that weight exactly or be lower than the weight. In duals team points are scored to decide a winner. The team points are decided by the way a wrestler wins his match against his opponent. If a wrestler pins his opponent then his team is awarded six team points. When a wrestler wins by a technical superiority then their team is given five team points. A major decision is awarded four team points and a win by a decision is given only three team points. Once the last match is wrestled then the team with the most team points wins the dual. If a dual ends and the team score is tied then c...