I'm not sure if the age rule can be appealed. I'd guess it depends on how they do things in your area. In Australia you can lodge a complaint or an appeal if you disagree with the decision of a bout. Problem is it costs a few hundred dollars and no on has ever won an appeal - in other words they'll take your money but you've got no hope of winning your argument no matter how compelling the evidence because they just don't believe in allowing people to complain.

One of the guys at the nationals KOed his opponent. The crowd was going nuts, his opponent was leaning dazed against the ropes and because he didn't hear the ref say stop (standing 2 m behind him) he was disqualified. They lodged a complaint about that but no one expects it to go through. I guess if they did then others would lodge more complaints. Pretty soon they'd either have to give their refs and judges a lot more training or be inundated with complaints.

It's easier for them not to be too flexible here perhaps because we don't have the same numbers in the sport to keep standards high. Get rid of all of the ref or judges that make mistakes and pretty soon you have none left. Find good people to train them and there'd be so few it'd be a huge job - especially for a sport which has very little funding.