It is not even logical when a kid has 3 or 4 takedowns in a match and gets dinged for stalling in the third right after a shot. Sometimes if you have been warned for stalling you can't even sprawl.
There was as match this weekend where a kid cut the guy twice in the third and took him down twice to tie it with 38 seconds left. He cut him again to go down one just because of a stalling warning. Fearing the ref would decide the match in 38 seconds rather than go to OT.
The blatant stalling is on the feet when they are pushing but have blocks up on the shoulders or the tie. Call that one right off the bat and the parallel on the hips 5 to seven seconds.
Was this the Chanute regional? If it is the match that I saw, that guy was a poor official period and knowing when someone was stalling wasn't his only failing.