Doing the right thing.

I had a Varsity dual tonight. I arrived about an hour early, so the coaches agreed to start a half hour earlier than scheduled. It was a good match up, but the talent swing leaned a little hard towards one of the schools. In the predual conference I had with one of the teams they asked me to go over the offensive starting position, so we got on the mat and I reviewed all of the commands I would be giving. I told them exactly what I expected with every command, and we only had one caution the entire night. There were plenty of pins, and some forfeits so the dual went very quick. In the last match of the night, with the team score out of reach things went a little south. Here is the sequence.
The visiting wrestler approached the line, pointed to the celling and gave praise before he would shake hands. Officially I could have called stalling, but it was pretty quick.
While they were working from their feet, the visiting wrestler started talking smack. I know talking smack may be a slightly technical description for some of you, but I can not remember the exact words. It was something close to lets see what you got boy. Fortunately the home team wrestler did not react, he paused slightly and I blew the whistle to stop the action. I could have possibly considered this taunting and called it Flagrant misconduct and called the match. I could have considered it unsportsmanlike and given a match point to the home wrestler. To diffuse the situation I chose to tell the wrestler not to talk. I had already let his team know that they should not talk to me while they are wrestling, and I took the opportunity to let him know not to talk to his opponent.
After a hard scramble the home wrestler got the takedown. They were scrambling hard on the mat when the home wrestler lifted the visiting wrestler off the mat. I can not remember whether he had a claw, or a half in, but the home wrestler was trying to put the visiting wrestler from this lifted position straight to his back. The visiting wrestler would not give easily, and because of his effort the home wrestler ended up planting him on top of his head. I stopped the action, awarded the visiting wrestler 1 point for an illegal move, and started recovery time. I went to the head table while the coaches and a trainer checked out the visiting wrestler. He seemed to be hurt but not injured, so I thought that wrestling would more than likely continue. I had the table worker letting me know every 30 seconds so that I could inform the coaches. At about 45 seconds the visiting wrestler was up. they were rubbing his neck so I called the one minute. I asked the visiting coach if they were going to wrestle, and he said yes. I informed the table to cut recovery time and walked to the mat. The visiting wrestler still was not on the mat so I asked his coach again if he was going to wrestle. At this point I could have called stalling. The coach was telling the wrestler to have a seat, and the wrestler looked very mad. I asked the coach if he was defaulting the match, and he said yes. I awarded the match to the home wrestler on an injury default. The coach asked if his wrestler had to take part in the post match procedures, and I said since he injury defaulted he did not have to. I could have forced him to take part, or charged him with unsportsmanlike for not taking part.
I talked to the coach after the match, and explained what had happened, and why I asked the questions I did. He was not sure that I had called an illegal hold, or started recovery time. he was paying attention to his wrestler. He forfeited the match not because his wrestler was hurt, but because he was afraid that his wrestler might start fighting instead of wrestling.
Did I go by the book? No. Did I know what I was supposed to do according to the book? Yes. Did I do the right thing for the wrestlers involved? I think I did.
It was also Sr. night for the home school and they had some youth wrestlers that were going to wrestle some exhibitions after the ceremonies. I stayed to call the matches, and everybody cheered hard for the young wrestlers. The night could have ended on a serious sour note, but the bad parts of the night were totally forgotten.