THE MICHIGAN DAILY PORT FOR MUSCLES: Olm Contesting for Heavyweight On Coach Cliff Keen's Mat Squad Wrestlers Rest Awhile- Intra-Squad Battles On .For StartingPositions 7 By ALLEN SINAI "I was out of shape because I "You have to love wrestling in didn't expect to wrestle, and may- order to stick at it because it's be that accounts for my showing such a tough sport," states Fred last spring when I only won one Olm, one of this year's candidates match," says Olm. for top heavyweight position on Zervas Toughest coach Cliff Keen's mat team. He is quick to add that Zervas Olm was comparing two sports, was the toughest man he ever Wrestling and football, as far as wrestled, with Ken Maidlow of deriving physical good goes. Michigan State running a close "I'm inclined to agree with seod him," said Keen. "More muscles Olnd attended Niles High School come into play when you wrestle." in Niles, Michigan, where he Olm, a junior in the School of played quite a bit of football. Education, has played football and "I had originally played basket- wrestled while at Michigan. ball in a school in New York," he Wrestling Main Activity says, "but one day the Niles High His major contribution to the line coach told me to go out for Wolverine sports scene has been wrestling and I've been doing it in 'wrestling, where he has grap- ever since."r pled as a heavyweight since his In his senior high school year, freshman year. Olm won 16 consecutive matches, Due to scholastic difficulties, only to finally be beaten by a boy however, he was unable to wrestle named John Baum, who now the first semester of his sopho- wrestles for MSU and whom Olm more year, but was forced back may meet later this year. into action when Keen's heavy- As a Michigan freshman, Olm weight star, Steve Zervas, was de- won the District AAU heavyweight clared ineligible. title in Greco-Roman and free- style wrestling. This grappling was done under As far as prefers to knows. Olympic rules. specific holds go. Olm use everything he Used Special Hold "I used to use a special pin hold in high school, but since I got up here I found that the boys are too big to use any specific hold on. Coaching wrestling is Olm's eventual goal. However, in the immediate future, he is only wor- ried about making Michigan's mat team. "I think we might have a tre- mendous year as everyone has to fight for a position," Olm stated. By DAVE LYON Michigan's wrestling team, now returning from an eastern swing during which it performed capably against Cornell and Rutgers-two of the best squads in the East- ncw take a three-week break from dual-meet activity. And although Coach Cliff Keen used the same eight men in the various weight divisions in both meets during the weekend, that does not mean that the same eight men will wrestle against tough Pittsburgh, Jan. 3. Sophs to Spare This competition for front-line posts is accentuated by the fact that, with the exception of three lettermen, the squad consists of sophomores who have been high school standouts." Two of the three veterans are juniors, the lone senior is Captain Larry Murray. And none of the veterans, on the basis of their performances, can yet be compared with such recent Wolverine greats as Max Pearson, Jack Marchello, and Mike Rodriguez. So the perform- ance of sophomores will largely determine the team's fortunes this season. About the only weight class where there appears to be no com- petition is at 123 lbs., where junior Mike Hoyles, with one year's ex- perience behind him, should do an able job. Murray and soph Ambrose Wil- banks are expected to contest for the 130-lb. berth. The captain will contest eithe compiled a 6-2-1 dual-meet record Port Huron at 1 as a 13-pounder last season, but of Ypsilanti at 17 he has moved to the 130-lb. slot, mores, end Fink vacated by the graduation of school champ. er Ted Ludwig of 167 or Karl Fink 77. All are sopho- is a former high Pearson, tnree-time Big Ten champ. Expected to battle for the 137- lb post are sophomores Wilf rid Hildebrandt of Toledo and JimWI Agnew of La Grange, Ill. Both Men's IOO/ Wool a'nnel have had highly successful wrest- ling careers. /nA*' The two top contenders for the 147-lb. position are sophs James Blaker of Park Ridge, Ill, and Bob Dwyer of Pontiac. Blaker is a former Illinois state high school titlist. Free cuff alterations Two more sophs, Don Corriere and Dick Fronczak, are contend- vy an regulr styles ing for the 157-lb. slot. Corriere Assorted colors wrestled as a prep at Hill School in Pottstown, Pa., the school where Pearson attended. 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SANTA JUST DISCOVERED US irst on Forfeit SHoyles gained his 'first victory SOCANYOU on a forfeit against Purdue and then followed this up by pinning Smith Holt of Northwestern, * Sih otoNrh seBig Ten semi-finalist. He made it three in a row at Minnesota, but against Iowa State the next day ESTING HOUSEhis match ended in a 1-1 tie. Pacing off against Iowa, he put ," Qr , 1 *cup- a hard fight before going down " to the Big Ten runner-up, Larry Moser. One of Hoyles most brilli- ant matches came in the Michi- Presenting the BEST in a gan State battle, when he came Prese ting the B :ST in .from a 5-2 deficit to finish witha 6-6 draw. However, he closed out dea ima nd audeinthe season b losing to Ohio* cleaning State's Palumbo, another Big Ten semi-finalist. 7:30 A.M. 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