How do I get my 'On my iPhone' Contacts to sync to iCloud?

We just upgraded my son's Mac to 10.8.2 from SnowLeapord. He didn't previously have iCloud support. So on his iPhone he had his contacts stored as 'On my iPhone'. He had a separate Contact list on his Mac for his AIM addresses.  We turned on iCloud syncing and his Contacts from his Mac Contacts App synced to the iCloud as we expected.
Now we want to get his contacts from his iPhone which are stored to "On my iPhone" to sync to his iCloud account and create a merge between his Mac and his iPhone Contacts list. We want to merge we don't want Mac or Phone to overwrite the other.
We can't figure out how to get it to do the merge. We tried 'Importing Sim Contacts' on the iPhone, but they don't import to iCloud.
Does anyone know how to get this to work?
Thanks in advance.

We just upgraded my son's Mac to 10.8.2 from SnowLeapord. He didn't previously have iCloud support. So on his iPhone he had his contacts stored as 'On my iPhone'. He had a separate Contact list on his Mac for his AIM addresses.  We turned on iCloud syncing and his Contacts from his Mac Contacts App synced to the iCloud as we expected.
Now we want to get his contacts from his iPhone which are stored to "On my iPhone" to sync to his iCloud account and create a merge between his Mac and his iPhone Contacts list. We want to merge we don't want Mac or Phone to overwrite the other.
We can't figure out how to get it to do the merge. We tried 'Importing Sim Contacts' on the iPhone, but they don't import to iCloud.
Does anyone know how to get this to work?
Thanks in advance.

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