Originally Posted by ideamark 
Imagine wrestling a match old-school style -- wearing wool tights and trunks (shirts optional), on a non-Resilite mat (perhaps in a roped-off ring like those used in some colleges in the 1920s and 30s), using old-school rules with longer 9-minute matches."
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In high school, our first year we wore wool tights with no tops, and had had horse-hair filled gym mats tied together. We weren't an official varsity sport yet, and our budget was very meager. In college, we wrestled nine minute matches and the freshman team had wool uniforms - very good incentive to get a pin and get off the mat quickly.
No, we didn't have best two out of three falls with a 30 minute time limit.