Sophomore Ed Franquemont, the only Harvard wrestler to place in this year's Eastern Intercollegiates, will try his luck in an even tougher and more prestigious ournament on March 25, 26, 27: the National Intercollegiate Championships in , Wyoming.

Franquemont, who took third in the 147-pound class at the Easterns, should the experience educational, if nothing else. Jack Daniels, Harvard's entry last year, was eliminated in the first round, and the chances are that a similar fate Franquemont.

Coach Bob Pickett will accompany Franquemont to Laramie. When asked which team appears to be the tournament , Pickett replied, "You don't in the Nationals. There are so many in it you don't now how they'll out."

Rock-crushers like Oklahoma, Lehigh, State, Colorado, and Michigan traditionally make the Nationals the exhibition of amateur wrestling a the United States.

This year, attention will be focused Jim Nance, Syracuse's All-American player and near-legendary . Nance suffered the only loss of collegiate career in last year's tournament, to Ron Bilberg of Morehead , and he'll be out for revenge next . He reportedly lumbers into Syracuse locker room every day practice and bellows, "Kill ."

Pickett rates Geoff Stevens, Cornell's 157-pounder, as the man to watch the Ivy League. Harvard has had only one national champion.