I'm past all the pre-game stuff. We are now talking about the actually case play.

Dual coverage, both officials give a preliminary. If this is not what the rulesmaker intended to be addressed by the case play, then what?

I disagree. Dual coverage or not, someone needs to be "primary". Sure, a pregame may not keep this from happening, but a blarge is always preventable.
Having to call a double foul in these cases looks ugly, and makes the appearance that the crew is not on the same page.

Still haven't answered my question. If my scenario is not what the rules makers had in mine, then what?

I hear you, BadNews.....This is a tough situation no one wants to be in and there is not a "good fix"........

How do the two guys who both just went up with a fist arrive at just one call?

Been there once. In a college game. With a far more experienced official than I.

Following season, I still got an increased college schedule. Other official added the D-League to his resume'.

So it's not the end of the world. But I bet we WOULD HAVE gotten in trouble if we had decided to ignore the case play.

That is my point with the pregame, overrated or not.
I will pregame that the lead takes this call. The trail drops, lets the lead take it, and then you can discuss your differences off of the court. This can be discussed all week with differing opinions, but at least in this case the crew does not look disjointed.

JAR, if you were even close to right, the case play in question wouldn't need to exist at all.

If it does need to exist, it needs to be reworded. As is, any way you look at it, either the case itself or its perception has holes in it.

Same sh!t, different day.

Saturday.

They have calendars in hell.

Very, very good officials have had blarges (I don't put myself in the very, very good category). For better or worse. If it was *always* preventable, it wouldn't happen at higher levels and I do remember seeing D-1 guys have them from time to time.

(Like I tell my football crew -- we haven't had an inadvertent whistle in a varsity game in 5 years -- but if we do, there's a half-page in the rule book to deal with it. There's a specific procedure. IWs should NEVER happen, but they do and when they do, we move on and handle the situation by rule. We can apologize and we can admit that this shouldn't happen, but it did and we're moving on from it. Period.)

For whatever reason, officials tend to give a quick preliminary on block/charge calls. I think part of it is that if 2 officials go up with a fist and look at each other and wait too long, there would be a perception of nobody knowing what's going on. Right or wrong, there is that.

Sometimes, though, a call is obvious and obviously in a primary and another official simply makes a mistake. And I feel in NFHS and NCAAM that there simply isn't a choice here. I think the intent of the case play is clear and ties my hands.

Not by the book...
 

You don't if you go by the book. There is no support for getting together and deciding which is best.