Funny people can look at video and see two different things. Until you said Ken was whizzering Carter with his left arm, I was going to go with your analysis. Are we talking about the time expiring video review event?
If not it must be another spot,
If yes, then Kems left arm is around Carters neck (Carters left side) and his right arm behind Carters right shoulder/armpit. Before time expires, Carters right hand, which previously was hooked around Kems knee preventing the Merkel, is now free and not grabbing anything. Arm maybe not free entirely.
Anyway. That’ s what I see. It was a tough call. I get it.
Deans was not tough. Not on any level. There is simply no basis for Warner have any control of anything, save perhaps his bladder.
Just went back and re-looked at end. As I said, I was focusing on freezing the last 5 seconds - second by second. Starting at 5 seconds you can't see Kem's left arm - I thought it was buried in whizzer, but reading your post I went back and looked at the entire series which started with Carter shooting and gaining a head-inside single with about 25 seconds remaining. As Starocci sucks his leg in Kem goes to a whizzer at the same time Carter hooks Kems lower right leg and ankle with his left leg at which point they both go to mat in a side-by-side position and Kem driving whizzer hard. This position persists for about 6 or 7 seconds and at about the 10 second mark Kem takes his left arm out of whizzer and reaches up-&-over Storroci's left shoulder and headlocks Carter (this is what I didn't see when I was freeze-framing the final 5 seconds - second by second. Again, starting at 5 seconds you can't see Kem's left arm because Carter has gone head-to-mat, I thought it was still buried in whizzer, but you are right - when you go out a bit further, Kem takes the left arm out of whizzer at 10 second mark and headlocks.). However, when Kem headlocks his shoulders go over-top Carter's shoulders and he is clearly not "behind Starocci's shoulders" similar to AD's position vs RBY he referenced, which was the original claim by the OP (i.e., that the AD-RBY position & series he referenced were analogous to this situation, which is complete bullshit, they aren't analogous in the least as to positioning or how they came about. AD had a chest-wrap on RBY and is completely behind RBY's arm and effectively tucked fully behind RBY's armpit and arm.). When Kemerer went to headlock his left shoulder is past Starocci's right shoulder which is the only thing that makes the headlock physically possible - Kem's right shoulder is way past Starocci's right shoulder which again is physically necessary as he's reaching back across his own body to complete headlock. Again, so the original claim that he is behind Carter's shoulders similar to the AD-RBY series he referenced is utter bullshit and completely fabricated. From the high-position Kemerer was in over top Carter's shoulders, not BEHIND them, a full Merkel would be required to award T2 and control.
In regards to Storroci's hold of Kem's lower leg below the knee, Carter clearly has a hold of his leg at 2 second mark and as Carter keeps shifting his leg to left (and over top of Kem's lower-leg), you can no longer see Carter's right arm or determine when he lets go of Kem's lower left leg -- it appears he doesn't let go until horn sounds ending match, then Rivera awards T2 (clearly after clock expired) and then Carter looks up at Rivera like wtf are you talking about, I just let go of him because reg time over.....