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Minnesota Golden Gophers

University of Minnesota Wrestling
Name	Minnesota Golden Gophers
Location	Minneapolis, Minnesota
Founded	1910
Athletic Director	Joel Maturi (Notre Dame, 1967)
Head Coach	J Robinson (Oklahoma State, 1969)
Home	Sports Pavilion (Capacity 5700)
Conference	Big Ten
2006-2007
Team Record	20-1
Big Ten Finish	1st
Team NCAA Finish	1st
Information current as of March 17, 2007

The Minnesota Golden Gophers are a Division I college wrestling team based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. They are a member of the Big Ten Conference and NCAA. Wrestling began at the University of Minnesota in 1910, but the first formal dual meet was not until 1921 when coach Frank Gilman lead the team to a victory over Wisconsin. The Gophers have won the NCAA wrestling team championship three times, in 2001, 2002, and 2007.

Contents 1 History 2 Home Meets 3 Team Championships 4 NCAA Individual Champions 5 2006/07 Squad 5.1 Recruits for 2007/08 6 External links

The University of Minnesota has been fielding wrestling teams for 92 seasons. In that time they have accumulated over 800 dual meet wins, the sixth highest total in college wrestling history. Almost half of those wins were credited to long time coach and wrestling Hall of Famer Wally Johnson who led the team from 1952-1986. During that time he coached the team to 392 dual meets wins along with three individual NCAA champions and 25 All-Americans. Minnesota’s current wrestling success got its start in 1986 when J Robinson was hired as the school’s seventh wrestling coach. Also a member of the wrestling Hall of Fame, he has coached eight NCAA champions and numerous All-Americans while at Minnesota.

Home meets are held in the 5,700 seat Sports Pavilion in Minneapolis. When large crowds are expected, meets are held in Williams Arena, capacity 14,321. This will often happen for matches against archrivals Iowa and Oklahoma State. Several home matches each year are televised by Fox Sports North. The school has also used Target Center in downtown Minneapolis for some matches.

NCAA Division I: 2001, 2002, 2007

Big Ten Conference: 1910, 1912, 1913, 1941, 1957, 1959, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2006, 2007

The Gophers have had fifteen NCAA individual champions. Four of those were two-time champions.

• Luke Becker: 2002
• Verne Gagne: 1948, 1949
• Damion Hahn: 2003, 2004
• Dale Hanson: 1939 (Most Valuable Wrestler)
• Tim Hartung: 1998, 1999
• Evan Johnson: 1976
• Cole Konrad: 2006, 2007
• Jared Lawrence: 2002
• Brock Lesnar: 2000
• Leonard Levy: 1941
• Marty Morgan: 1991
• Dick Mueller: 1953
• Pat Neu: 1977
• Dustin Schlatter: 2006
• John Whitaker: 1937

• 125 Jayson Ness
• 133 Mack Reiter
• 141 Manuel Rivera
• 149 Dustin Schlatter
• 157 C.P. Schlatter
• 165 Tyler Safratowich
• 174 Gabe Dretsch
• 184 Roger Kish
• 197 Yura Malamura
• 285 Cole Konrad

• Cody Marcicki
• Zach Sanders
• Sonny Yohn
• Kaleb Young

• The Official Minnesota Gopher Website
• The Official Wrestling site of the NCAA
• The Guillotine

Big Ten Conference
Illinois • Indiana • Iowa • Michigan • Michigan State • Minnesota • Northwestern • Ohio State • Penn State • Purdue • Wisconsin

University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
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