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The state rules are very clear, Ohio's delegates are bound to Kasic for the first round of voting, irrespective of Kasic drping out before the convention:

Here’s what the Ohio Republican Party Rules say about the delegates:

ARTICLE X, Section 1(d) – The winner of the 2016 Ohio Presidential Primary shall be awarded all 66 delegates and 63 alternates to the Republican National Convention whether the delegates are at-large or awarded by Congressional district.

Brittany Warner, Communications Director for the Ohio Republican Party, told Conservative Review that the delegates remain bound only for the first ballot.
Warner also confirmed that the first ballot binding must be for Kasich, and no one else. Warner said, “what you questioned yesterday[regarding delegates going to Trump] is not correct. As the rules state, the 66 delegates will go to the winner of the Ohio primary (John Kasich).”

- See more at: https://www.conservativereview.com/commentary/2016/03/upon-exiting-race-kasichs-ohio-delegates-are-not-bound-to-trump#sthash.QRJjxF3v.dpuf
- See more at: https://www.conservativereview.com/commentary/2016/03/upon-exiting-race-kasichs-ohio-delegates-are-not-bound-to-trump#sthash.QRJjxF3v.dpuf