by Jeff Olsen

At 55, Mike Rentfrow no longer looks like the scrawny kid when he was the student manager for the Roseau wrestling team in 1979-80.

He was maybe 125 pounds.

He laughed a week ago Thursday, speaking by phone from the Houston, Texas area.

And yes, he has an accent.

The 1984 Roseau High School graduate and Army veteran, who saw duty as a combat engineer in Desert Storm, never was voted the "Most Likely to Succeed" or selected to be a member of the National Honor Society.

These days, he owns four businesses and has seen more foreign ports than the late Bob Hope, the greatest enter...