As rains continued to fall during the second day of the 2006 Big Ten Outdoor Track and Field Championships, Wisconsin captured the team lead with 64.50 points after seven events scored. Minnesota trails by only two points and sits in second place. Ohio State, who led the team competition after day one, sits third with 32 points. Iowa and Indiana sit in fourth and fifth place with 29 and 24 points, respectively. Penn State moved up three spots from yesterday and is sits in sixth place while Purdue is seventh. Illinois (8), Michigan (9) and Michigan State (10) round out the team competition.

Wisconsin boasted a 1-2-3 punch after five events yesterday in the decathlon and produced the same performance today for the final standings. Senior Nathan Brown carried his lead from yesterday in to today to capture the 2006 decathlon title. After five rounds he led with 3820 points and added another 3687 to bring his grand total to 7507 points. Fellow Badger, Joe Detmer remained in second place after day one as Ben Roland also maintained his third-place position through all 10 events. Wisconsin's Peter Dykstra moved up two spots to finish fourth while Penn State freshman, Chris Morissey ended up in fifht-place overall.

Minnesota's Derek Gearman captured the men's long jump title pulling double duty as he competed in the high jump event as well. The junior raced back and forth between the two events that took place simultaneously but managed to place first in the long jump after jumping 25'00" (7.62 meters). He went on to finish as the runner-up in the high jump, clearing the bar set at 6'11.75" (2.13 meters). Purdue's Nolan Petties, placed second in the long jump in his collegiate debut at the conference outdoor championships, with a mark of 24'02.5" (7.38 meters). Gearman's teammate, senior Andy Newman finished third, just .25 inches short of Petties' mark, at 24'02.25" (7.37 meters). Wisconsin's Alonzo Moore (24'01.5"/7.35 meters) and Paul Hubbard (23'10"/7.26 meters) rounded out the top-five competitors.

The Minnesota Golden Gophers notched a 1-2-3 finish in the men's high jump with senior Kevin Netzer leading the way, reaching a height of 6'11.75" (2.13 meters) for the individual crown. He was followed by teammates Gearman and senior John Albert in second and third, respectively, with Albert notching the same score as Gearman of 6'10.25" (2.09 meters) but taking third place due to tie breakers. Wisconsin's Zach McCollum shares the No. 3 position with Albert after tallying the same mark in as many attempts. Two Michigan Wolverines also met the 6'10.25" height but seniors Brad Miller and Darren Adams took fifth and sixth place, respectively, as a result of a tie breaker.

Iowa's Tim Broderson defended his Big Ten title from a year ago after capturing this year's crown with a toss of 181'02" (55.22 meters). The Hawkeye senior held off Minnesota redshirt senior Karl Erickson who was looking for his fourth discus title in as many years. Erickson finished second after recording a 179'05" (54.69 meters) mark. Broderson is the second Hawkeye to claim individual throwing titles at the 2006 championships after teammate Adam Hamilton was crowned the hammer throw winner yesterday. Steve Meyers of Penn State claimed the third-place position, meeting a distance of 169'09" (51.74 meters) while Indiana senior Ryan Ketchum's 169'05" (51.64 meters) was good enough for fourth place. Patrick Whalen, a sophomore from Ohio State, placed fifth with a distance of 165'03" (50.37 meters).

Illinois enters the 2006 outdoor 4x100-meter relay final with the fastest time after Pierre Bush, Andre English, Nathan Vadeboncouer and Dominique Worsley ran an NCAA regional qualifying time of 40.57 and defeated the rest of the competition by .39 seconds. Indiana will run the finals boasting second-fastest time of 40.96 which was earned by Stephanos Ioannou, Wil Glover, Keith Heerdegen and Marcus. Wisconsin (third), Iowa (fourth) and Minnesota (fifth) are only separated by .29 seconds and will be vying for this year's crown.

Wisconsin's Chris Solinsky, last year's runner-up, captured the 1,500-meter crown in 3:51.55. Indiana's John Jefferson, who was on Solinsky's tail the entire race, placed second with a time of 3:52.06. Michigan State's Jim Pancoast crossed the finish line in front his home crowd in 3:51.71, good enough for third place. Wolverines Justin Switzer and Mike Woods finished fourth and fifth in 3:52.14 and 3:52.51, respectively.

Aaron Buzard is another Minnesota Golden Gopher to earn individual honors today as the junior sprinted an entire lap of the track in 46.48 seconds on his way to first place in the 400-meter dash prelims. Illini Nathan Vadeboncouer and Abe Jones brought home second- and third-place finishes in 46.80 and 47.32, respectively. 2005 outdoor champion, David Neville of Indiana placed fourth in 47.50. Running in front of his home crowd, Spartan Jeremy Orr recorded a top-five finish in 47.02. Michigan's StannWaithe (sixth) Wisconsin's Chad Melotte (seventh) and Indiana's Doug Dayhoff (eighth) will also be competiting for the individual title.

Penn State senior Alex Langan will enter the 100-meter dash finals tomorrow with the fastest time of 10.51. Dominique Worsley, an Illini freshman that has had an outbreak of a rookie campaign, boasts the second-fastest time in the event as he finished in 10.55. Boilermaker Ricky Pinkney's time of 10.57 captured the No. 3 postion while two freshmen notched the fourth and fifth place positions. Iowa's David Chaplin finished in 10.59 while Indiana's WIl Glover enters the finals with a time of 10.59.

Andre English, a senior from Illinois, captured the fastest NCAA regional qualifying time of the day in the 110-meter high hurdles as he boasted a 13.94. Purdue's Keith Hopkins finished with the second-fastest time after clocking in at 13.98. Jeff Porter of Michigan was the thrid student-athlete to cross the finish line as he did so in 14.27 while Indiana's Ioannou and Michigan State's John Childress will enter the finals in the No. 4 and No. 5 spots. Brian Kaluf (Purdue), Paul Check (Wisconsin) and Adam Stanowick (Penn State) round out the top-eight.

As the day went on, rain began to fall even harder but that didn't stop three student-athletes from advancing into finals with top spots while one captured an individual title. Matt Lincoln of Penn State, who finished sevent at last year's championships in the 800-meter run, boasts the No. 1 position entering the event finals. Indiana's David Neville will be the man to beat in the 200-meter dash as he finished first in the prelims today and is the 2005 runner-up in the event. Elon Simms, a freshman from Ohio State captured the top time in the 400-meter hurdle trial competition and will look for his first Big Ten gold medal tomorrow in the finals.

In the last event of the day, the 3,000-meter steeplechase, Purdue's David Rae got out to an early lead and never looked back. The senior captured the title with a time of 8:45.69.

Day three of the 2006 Big Ten Outdoor Track and Field Championships begins tomorrow at 11:30 a.m. ET with the women's triple jump cometition. Men's events will begin at 12:30 p.m. ET with shot put.