Better ref to wrestler communication, 1-0 matches no stalling, sometimes. The ref to wrestler communication is the warning and then the penalty, not to be harsh. But The official officiates and their coaches coach. By that if I tell the wrestler to shoot, or work in bounds I am coaching him then the coach is upset that I just coached his wrestler into being taken down, or turned to his back or reversed.
The official warns because the top man hasn't gotten off his opponents hips, and more times than not after the warning, and we talk about this at least the ones that call stalling. The top man will score a take down, or create activity, that wasn't there before the call. Or the bottom man is making love to the mat and gets warned and, boom he either gets a reversal or and escape, and we as officials will tell the coach and some times the wrestler we should get half of those points, and the wrestler will sheepishly grin and the coaches will in their own way agree and move on.
The next time you watch a match and the wrestlers haven't taken a shot in the first minute, and I am not talking about a drop to a knee and a slap at his opponent or a reach, a real shot and stalling is called. Watch the action pick up, the official will hear, from the coach of the wrestler what we shot 4 times, and if you were to look at a video there is not one real shot, just the emotion from it being his wrestler, you will see a better match than two minutes of pushing and shoving, now where I come from that is not wrestling. And if I want to watch 2 guys go at it for 8 and a half minutes and see the score 1-0 nothing I would rather watch paint dry. The best college matches I have done as an official or as a fan watching were the ones that the official made them take a few risks. They aren't going to take any chances unless they are forced to. I just watched the Penn State Minnesota match and the wrestlers and the official had a great match because they were made to wrestle, the only problem is in that match stalling was called and then in the next one no stalling was called. It is just an opinion that not only should they rate an official for calling stalling they should also rate him for not calling stalling.