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Junior Mark Faller is in Evanston, Ill., today to vie with the nation's best 158-pound wrestlers for a prize that eluded Harvard matmen throughout the '60's, the NCAA championship...
...Faller's coach, John Lee, said earlier this week that the 158-pound field is "wide open." At the same time, because of the caliber of the NCAA's the chances are slim that Faller can go all the way through the finals...
After wrestling at 167 during the regular season. Faller was runner-up in the Eastern championships two weeks ago at Penn State. He wrestled at 160 pounds at the Easterns, howeve, and decided then to push for 158 at the NCAA...
...route to his high finish at the Easterns, Faller edged Jack Bentz of Lehigh, the favorite and defending champion at 167, 4-3. The leading contender at the NCAA's, 158-pound Dave Martin of Iowa State, defeated Bentz by the same score in a dual meet last January...
...Next year's varsity will of course draw heavily on returning lettermen, since only three starters are graduating. Faller-18-1-1 as he goes into the NCAA championships next weekend-will be back at 167, as will newly-elected captain Pat Coleman...