MARQUETTE, Mich. - "How many of you want to be a U.P. Champion?"    "How many of you want to be an NCAA Champion?"    Those were two questions USA Wrestling National Greco-Roman coach and Olympic Gold medalist Steve Fraser asked a crowd of young wrestlers as he began a motivational talk following a technique clinic early on a cold and clear November morning last weekend at Westwood High School near Ishpeming, in Michigan's Upper Peninsula.    Fraser was visiting the USOEC, located in nearby Marquette at Northern Michigan University.  Fraser and United States Olympic Education Center Greco-Roman head coach Ivan Ivanov were at the Westwood High School as guests of the school's wrestling program.       The clinic was one of two in the U.P. designed to stimulate interest in wrestling in the Upper Peninsula.    Fraser, a Michigan native from downstate Hazel Park, was a two-time wrestling All-American at The University of Michigan and USA Wrestling Athlete of the year in1984.    "More than anything, we're trying to fire up some Upper Peninsula kids up about this great sport of wrestling," said Fraser.  "Hopefully, we can also generate some excitement about the USOEC and NMU while we're at it."    After two hours of hands-on technique instruction, Fraser showed the group of wrestlers the Gold Medal he won in Los Angeles in 1984, talked about the effort it took to get, and the adversity he met at seemingly every step in his wrestling career.    "If you really want this," Fraser said while holding the medal, "you can do this.    The reason I had success is I started believing in myself, and I had good coaches."    Fraser related his history of starting from square-one in wrestling, both at Hazel Park High School, outside Detroit, and college at the U of M.    "I started wrestling in eighth grade - and I was terrible," Fraser related.  "By the time I graduated, I was a state champion, and was offered a full-ride scholarship to the greatest university in the world: the University of Michigan."    Fraser went on to explain that once he arrived in Ann Arbor, the process started anew.     "I thought I was really something: the baddest dude on campus," he exclaimed.  "But an older wrestler at Michigan named Mark Johnson had other ideas, and I didn't score a point on him in practice for months."    "When I finally did score, I realized it was because he had slipped on some water on the mat.  To make things worse, I was failing history and physiology.  I did what anyone would do: I called home and complained!"    "What I learned after a lot of scratching and clawing my way back up" said Fraser, who graduated from the U of M in 1980 with a bachelor's degree in physical education, "is that Steve Fraser can do anything he wants."    "The things we learn from our setbacks are what make us tougher."    Westwood is a place that knows something about struggle:  its part of the school district for much of western Marquette County, a place rich in the striking beauty of pines, water and rock outcroppings, but poor in the pocketbook since the iron mines that supported the area closed due to depleting mineral stores and modernization of process.  The area now looks to visiting recreational enthusiast and hunters to keep things afloat.    What this end of the county doesn't offer in luxury, it makes up for in "Sisu," a word immigrants from Finland who settled the area use to describe the needed resolve.  Westwood's neighbor Ishpeming often dressed fewer than 15 athletes on a football team that made the state play-offs.  A sport like wrestling that depends upon only the will and strength of its participants fits well in the area.      "The kids up here don't have the opportunities that kids in bigger cities have," said Ivanov of the USOEC.  "We have a great relationship with the coach here, and I thought it would be a great prize for these athletes to bring in an Olympic champion."     Fraser was the first American to win an Olympic gold medal in Greco-Roman wrestling.  He won five matches on his way to Gold, defeating Romania's Ilia Matei in the finals after getting past Swedish wrestling legend Frank Andersson.    As Fraser's Gold Medal passed from one wrestler to another, he shared a final bit of advice with the group.    "Know what you want," he said.  "The struggles I overcame made me better.  When you have that attitude, you can start to achieve."