University of Minnesota Athletics
WRESTLERS DEFEAT NORTHERN IOWA 27-6
12/10/1999 12:00:00 AM | Athletics
Senior All-American Brock Lesnar won his seventh match of the year with a 10-2 major decision over Paul Hynek at heavyweight to start the match. Sophomore Leroy Vega, ranked second in the nation, defeated Eric Dunmire with a 11-4 decision to improve his record to 12-0 at 125 pounds. Also winning his match with technical fall decision was sophmore Chad Erikson over Mark Rial at 141 pounds.
Junior Brett Lawrence defeated Chad Boudreaux 7-1 at 133 pounds and redshirt freshman Luke Becker defeated Bob Koenig 8-7 at 157 pounds. The last four matches were all decided by four points or less. Sophomore John Hardy defeated Nate Lawrenz 10- 6 at 165 pounds. At 184 pounds, senior All-American Brandon Eggum decisioned Kyle Hanson 3- 2 and at 197 pounds sophomore Owen Elzen defeated Tony Wieland 2-0.
Minnesota will host Portland State Sunday at 2 p.m. in the Sports Pavilion.
Agate: Minnesota 27, Northern Iowa 6 Cedar Falls, Iowa Hwt. - No. 1 Brock Lesnar (MINN) maj. dec. Paul Hynek (UNI) 10-2 125 - No. 2 Leroy Vega (MINN) dec. Eric Dunmire (UNI) 11-4 133 - No. 10 Brett Lawrence (MINN) dec. Chad Boudreaux (UNI) 7-1 141 - No. 15 Chad Erikson (MINN) tech. fall Mark Rial (UNI) 6:55 149 - No. 1 Tony Davis (UNI) dec. No. 10 Jared Lawrence (MINN) 14-8 157 - No. 18 Luke Becker (MINN) dec. Bob Koenig (UNI) 8-7 165 - No. 17 John Hardy (MINN) dec. Nate Lawrenz (UNI) 10-6 174 - No. 12 Randy Pugh (UNI) dec. No. 20 Delany Berger (MINN) 7-5 184 - No. 2 Brandon Eggum (MINN) dec. Kyle Hanson (UNI) 3- 2 197 - No. 9 Owen Elzen (MINN) dec. No. 8 Tony Wieland (UNI) 2-0
