The National Wrestling Hall of Fame has honored two outstanding officials, the late Mort Geller as well as Fred Ambrose, with its Outstanding Official award this year.    This award is to recognize outstanding service as a wrestling or pairing official or judge. Inductees are honored in the recently completed Vince Zuaro Officials' Room.    Mort Geller  Legend has it that the sport of wrestling benefitted from poor officiating. While watching his son's match, Mort Geller became displeased with referee Rick Tucci, who would later become one of Geller's close friends, and let his opinion be known. Tucci's response-be quiet or learn how to referee yourself. The rest, as they say, is history.    A decade after that fateful match, Geller had worked his way onto the international stage and was constructing a reputation as a gifted clinician. Among Geller's achievements were becoming a FILA Exceptional and officiating for Israel at the 1988 Olympics in Seoul, South Korea.    In 1999, Geller was tabbed as the USWOA Official of the Year and has been inducted into the Broward County Wrestling Hall of Fame as well as the Florida Wrestling Hall of Fame.    Despite his international acclaim, Geller was as proud to be named the recipient of the Phil Portuese Memorial Award in 1997 as he was of any of his other honors. Given in recognition of "outstanding leadership and contributions in the training of new officials and the development of young athletes", the presentation to of the award came as no surprise to those who knew Geller. He was renowned for his exceptional teaching ability and helped further the careers of up-and-coming athletes in the sport for a quarter century.    Fred Ambrose  When scanning the rankings of collegiate officials, one name is consistently peppered throughout the  docket-Fred Ambrose. Five times Ambrose has been ranked as the No. 1 official at the Division II level and has been ranked among the top three among Division I referees over the past decade and has been the top-ranked and head official at the High School National Tournament. Currently, Ambrose stands as the No. 2-ranked official at the Division I level.    Ambrose has served as a PIAA and NCAA official since 1989 as well as the District 8 (City of Pittsburgh) Wrestling Coordinator. In 1992, Amrose founded the "Wrestler of the Mat" wrestling camp, of which he still directs.     Ambrose served 15 years as president of the high school chapter of rules interpretation and is an at-large writer for National High School Wrestling News.    All told, Ambrose has been selected to officiate 23 Division I and II National Championships, five Pennsylvania High School State Tournaments and has been chosen to patrol the mat at every NCAA Tournament from 1980 to the present.    In 1996, he was inducted as a Sports Legend of Pittsburgh and has been ushered into the National Italian Sports Hall of Fame, the Western Pennsylvania Wrestling Hall of Fame and the Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame. Ambrose has worked as a teacher since 1969 and has served as Athletics Director since 1982.