Our sport today evolved from the Olympic sport of Pankration. Pankration involved not only grappling , but also punching and kicking.
Wrestling was never intended to be a pretty sport, it is a contact sport! Much of what is considered dirty wrestling is just good hard wrestling, and granted there is some dirty wrestling that goes on.
I believe that here in Kansas we have become used to a little softer style of wrestling and if you happen to travel to a national tournament you would see what I mean. Kansas wrestlers in general really don't know what hand fighting is all about and we suffer on the national level because of our style of wrestling. Our kids have the technique needed to compete, but we lack brawling abilities in general when you compare us to many other states. I'm not knocking Kansas wrestling in the least because I grew up with it.
Our present officiating mentality doesn't allow for really physical matches. Is it the officials fault that physical aspect of our wrestling is watered down? NO! This is type of wrestling that has been prescribed to them by non-wrestlers who have interpreted what wrestling should be. The officials are just doing their jobs as mandated to them.
All of this said Kansas Wrestlers usually perform fairly well on the national level, but imagine how much better we could be if we were allow to mix it up the way wrestling was intended to be.
If you want to watch some great brawling matches just find some tape on Tom and Terry Brands and then you will understand the brawling aspect of wrestling.

Some of you might find this situation a little funny, but its true.

I was coaching a football game and the ref threw a flag on one of my players. When I ask him what the infraction was, he informed me that my player had hit the other player too hard. When I ask him, do you mean we hit him on the way out of bounds or what? He again informed me that we just hit the other play too hard. There was no use arguing this call because the ref truly believed that it was an infraction. Show me that one in the rule book.
This is the mentality that some of our officials have developed.