From this official's perspective:

I've been around wrestling for 30 years now: wrestled through Federation (Dennis Bowersok in Lyons), HS (Murray Anderson at Colby) and coached at the asst. and head level at MS & HS, now completed my 11th year officiating and the biggest thing I see as a ref is the low percentage of pins with the basic 1/2 nelson. More and more kids see the good wrestlers using advanced moves and they try to run a marthon before they can crawl!

Someone, somewhere needs to stress the fundamentals and make the kids learn them. Even basic moves are carried out wrong: sitting on your butt with a headlock, knees on the mat or not "T"ed out with a half, trying to "finish" a single or a double from your knee(s), etc.

Those programs that are successful either have fundamentally sound feeder programs (federation or MS) and/or have those coaches that stress the basics! I agree with red when he said "You can drive a Cadillac but the VW will still get you to dance!" I've sat there many a times watching a match thinking, "You're wasting time and energy trying to run this or that and the half's just screaming to be thrown!!!" or "There's the armbar/wing, Ride the ankle, You have to break them down before throwing that" etc.

Our kids need to learn how to crawl, then walk and if they start winning championships, jog. But too many of them are worried about being flashy when the "good ol'" will get the job done.