A native of Webster, South Dakota, Brock Lesnar wrestled for two years at Bismarck State College, where he compiled a 56-3 record, winning the 1998 NJCAA heavyweight title. In 1998, Lesnar was recruited to wrestle at the University of Minnesota by head coach J Robinson (shown here with Lesnar).
- A native of Webster, South Dakota, Brock Lesnar wrestled for two years at Bismarck State College, where he compiled a 56-3 record, winning the 1998 NJCAA heavyweight title. In 1998, Lesnar was recruited to wrestle at the University of Minnesota by head coach J Robinson (shown here with Lesnar).
- When he came to Minnesota in January 1999, Brock Lesnar was THE talk of college wrestling, with his incredible physique and take-no-prisoners wrestling style (on display here, throwing Iowa's Wes Hand). Dan Gable said of Lesnar: "When he strips off his warm-ups, he turns more heads than Cindy Crawford in a thong." In college, Lesnar stood 6' 3", with a 20" neck, 52" chest and 36" waist.
- In his first year at Minnesota (1999 - his junior year), Brock Lesnar lost only one regular-season match (to Iowa State's Trent Hynek). In the heavyweight finals of 1999 Big Ten championships, he beat Illinois' Karl Roesler to win the conference title.
- At the 1999 NCAA Division I championships, Brock Lesnar made it to the heavyweight finals... where he went up against defending champ Stephen Neal (shown here) of Cal State Bakersfield, an incredible physical specimen himself at 6'4" and 285 lbs.
- In the heavyweight finals at the 1999 NCAAs at Penn State, Stephen Neal defeated Brock Lesnar 3-2... denying the Minnesotan a national title as a junior, who finished the year 24-2.
- During his senior season (2000), Brock Lesnar lost only one regular-season match... to Iowa's Wes Hand. Lesnar got revenge, beating the Hawkeye in the finals of the 2000 Big Ten championships (shown here)... winning his second conference crown.
- At the 2000 NCAAs in St Louis, Brock Lesnar plowed his way through the heavyweight bracket. In the semifinals, he pinned Bandele Adeniyi-Bada of the University of Pennsylvania (shown here) -- a wrestler with a Lesnar-like physique -- making it to the finals for the second straight year.
- In the heavyweight finals of the 2000 NCAAs, Brock Lesnar faced a very familiar foe: Wes Hand, the hairy-chested Hawkeye (shown here with his singlet straps down at an Iowa match) -- one of only three college wrestlers to have beaten Brock.
- In a battle of Big Ten big men, Minnesota's Brock Lesnar (left) and Iowa's Wes Hand go head-to-head for the 2000 NCAA heavyweight title.
- In an incredibly close match that went into overtime, Brock Lesnar edged out Iowa's Wes Hand to win the 2000 NCAA heavyweight championship. (Both men shown here on the victory stand.)
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