Senior high school wrestler Louden Swain is a man obsessed , trying to lose 23 pounds in a dangerously short time and accept Shute, the undefeated, tough-as-nails 168-pound champion who is the best wrestler in the state. Matthew Modine stars since the student. . .until a-day a sexy drifter threatens to snare Louden and his fantasies into the mat of love.