Senior school wrestler Louden Swain is just a man obsessed , trying to lose 23 pounds in a dangerously short time and undertake Shute, the undefeated, tough-as-nails 168-pound champion who is the greatest wrestler in the country. Matthew Modine stars while the mop-headed student. . .until aday an attractive drifter threatens to pin his dreams and Louden into the mat of unrequited love.