How many cautions before a wrestler loses?

• A caution is written as "O" on the score sheet. After each one the opponent automatically gets at least 1 point.
• Negative wrestling, such as interlocking fingers or avoiding contact, is a caution and 2 points to the opponent.
• The mat chairman must approve every caution. The third must be unanimous.
• Three cautions: the bout is lost, and the winner takes 5 classification points to 0.
• If the points are level at the end, the wrestler with fewer cautions is ahead on criteria, after the highest-value hold.
• Passivity is recorded separately and is not a caution.

Disqualification:

• For an obvious offence against fair play, open cheating, a serious error or brutality, by a unanimous decision of the officials. The wrestler is placed last, without a rank, and marked "DSQ".
• For brutality after the bout has ended.
• For deliberately injuring the opponent. The injured wrestler wins.
• For faking an injury to avoid an opponent, if the doctors can prove it.
• For a positive doping test.
• If both wrestlers are disqualified, both get 0 classification points.

The point attached to every caution makes each foul cost something at once. The limit of three removes a wrestler who would sooner foul than wrestle.