Using Wicket and Hibernate

[Gerrit Wassink]

Hello,
I am reading "Wicket in Action" the part over wicket, spring and 
hibernate.Since i am new to concepts like wicket, spring and hibernate i want 
to learn about them.But also learning three new tools together is a bit much.
Is it therefore a good idea to forget about Spring and make the mvc working 
with only Wicket and Hibernate?
Maybe you can give me a startup voor working together wicket and hibernate?
Thanks a lot!
Greetings Gerrit