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Show T-bird Matmen enter RMAC Meet as heavy as 150 pounds, will go at 126 pounds. Grant, who has been at 126, will go up to 134. Prater has wrestled at both 177 and 167; he will go at the lgihter weight this week. That will leave Dale Petersen (freshman from Tooele) at 177. "The RMAC is a tough wrestling conference," Lopour explains. "We think that if we get our wrestlers going, we should finish ahead of two or three other schools." The Thunderbirds will take a 3-12 dual meet record into the conference competition. com-petition. Many of the T-Bird woes have come about because of injuries and wrestlers leaving the squad for a wide variety of reasons. Southern Utah's probably starting lineup will include six freshmen and two seniors. While there are no illusions of Southern Utah State College winning the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference wrestling championship, the Thunderbirds Thun-derbirds do figure they should be competitive in the upper weights. Phil Howa (190) and Keith Seals (HWT) have both qualified for the NAIA national tournament, and Frank Prater (167) can qualify with a strong showing in the RMAC tournament. Perennial champion Adams State will be an overwhelming favorite again this year as RMAC . schools meet in Grand Junction, Colorado, Saturday. "There's just no way I can see than anyone will beat Adams State. They have an extremely strong squad," Joe Lopour, SUSC coach, says. "I would think tht the remaining teams will be closely bunched behind Adams. Probably Fort Lewis and ' Mesa--and possibly Colorado Mines-will Mines-will be battling for second place." SUSC will do some shuffling shuf-fling of wrestlers among the weight ' classes for the conference meet. Matt Grant, freshman from Lehi, and Cato Esquivel, freshman fresh-man from Boulder City, Nevada, will switch weights. Esquivel, who has wrestled |