Amputee champion gives others legs to stand on

To surrender a dream leaves life as it is and not as it could be. Nick Ackerman wanted to be the best college wrestler in the land regardless of the fact that he didn’t have a leg to stand on.  “My knees,” he says, “are the same as everybody else’s feet.”As a boy growing up in Colfax, Iowa, Nick tried all sorts of sports — fishing, baseball, soccer, even football — on artificial l