Five Golden Gopher wrestlers - Justin Bronson, Jeremy Larson, Joe Nord, Tyler Safratowich and C.P. Schlatter - have earned Academic All-Big Ten honors, the conference office announced today. The University of Minnesota had 51 student-athletes in seven different winter sports receive the award for the 2007-08 season.

For the Gopher wrestling team, Schlatter (Sr., Pre-Nursing, Massillon, Ohio) picked up the honor for the fourth straight season. Larson (Sr., Spanish, Preston, Minn.) also earned the accolade for the fourth time in his Minnesota career. Bronson (Sr., Kinesiology, Princeton, Minn.) picked up his second academic award from the conference.

Safratowich (Jr., Construction Management, Park Rapids, Minn.) was named Academic All-Conference for the third consecutive year. It was the first career honor for redshirt freshman Nord (Education, Waconia, Minn.).

Minnesota is scheduled to hold its end-of-the-season awards banquet April 6.