ALBANY, N.Y. — After having no individual national champions last year, Minnesota boasts two this year, en route to successfully defending their championship.

Minnesota tallied 126.5 points, followed by an Iowa State team with three individual champions and 104 points, while Oklahoma finished third with 101.5 points. Iowa finished fourth with 89 points.

The Nittany Lions finished the championship in Albany, with a total of 13 team points and finished in 35th place.

This is Penn State's lowest output of points scored at nationals since Rich Lorenzo's second year as coach in 1980, when the Lions tallied only 2.75 team points and a 45th place finish. This year is the second lowest placing in Penn State history.

"We wrestled hard, but I am disappointed that we didn't qualify more All-Americans," Penn State wrestling coach Troy Sunderland said. "We have a lot that we still need to work on. The biggest thing is getting into the right weight class and being willing to go hard for the whole seven minutes."

The Lions' lone All-American this year was 165-pounder Doc Vecchio. Vecchio earned All-American status when he defeated Missouri's Ty Woodley in overtime, 10-8. With less than 30 seconds remaining in the extra session Vecchio notched the takedown. Vecchio finished in eighth place after dropping a decision 11-9 to Pennsylvania's Josh Henson.

In the 165-pound final Joe Heskett, two-time runner-up, scored a takedown with two seconds left to beat Illinois' Matt Lackey.

Marat Tomaev, the Lions 133-pounder, came within a victory of becoming an All-American. In the match, he squared off with Iowa's Cliff Moore and lost to him for the fourth time this season.

"It's one of those match ups of contrasting style," Sunderland said. "He is very disappointed because he didn't become an All-American."

Tomaev finished the championship with a 3-2 mark. On day two before the defeat to Moore, Tomaev won a pair of matches. He upended Pittsburgh's Shawn Amistade 7-1, and defeated Appalachian State's Travis Drake, 5-4.

Minnesota's 133-pounder Ryan Lewis, the North Dakota State transfer, lost 5-4 to Johnny Thompson in the final. Thompson avoided being takedown by Lewis at the end.

"I had a warning for stalling so I wanted to get on the leg and try to get a takedown," said Thompson about the end of the match. "I wanted to try and score and separate a little.

Some of the other Lions were not as successful as Vecchio and Tomaev. Junior captain Mark Becks lost his first consolation match after losing a closely contested match to Damion Hahn on Thursday night.

Rutgers' Tom Tanis defeated Becks in overtime with only two seconds remaining when he scored a takedown, 7-5. Becks appeared to have recorded a takedown in the closing moments of regulation to defeat Tanis, as he was flat on the mat.

"If you can't see a guy flat on his stomach, then you don't deserve to be refereeing at the national tournament," Becks said. "Its that simple."

Becks will have a long off-season to deal with that he felt was an unfair ruling.

"I absolutely feel cheated," the Concord, Ohio native said. "This is something that will hang over my shoulder and I will have to deal with until next year."

Nate Wachter went 1-2 in his third championship appearance. After winning his second match, Wachter lost his third bout to Pennsylvania's Joe Henson by a score of 5-3.

Scott Moore's second appearance was not as successful as his first in 2000, when he won two matches. This year, Moore went two and out with loses to eventual national champion Aaron Holker of Iowa State, 17-0, and Central Michigan's Jason Mester, 7-3.

Heavyweight Pat Cummins lost to Harvard's Dawid Rechul 4-1 following the setback to Tommy Rowlands. In Pete Mielnik's final match in the Penn State singlet, he lost 12-5 to Arizona State's Erik Gladish.

Penn State will have a full season of competition before returning to nationals and having the opportunity to remove the distaste from this year's performance.