GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) – Retired Minnesota Viking Jim

Kleinsasser (KLYN’-sahs-ur) headlines this year’s class of

inductees into the University of North Dakota Letterwinners

Athletics Hall of Fame.

Kleinsasser spent all 13 of his NFL seasons with the Vikings

after being a second-round draft pick out of UND in 1999. He

appeared in more games than any tight end in Vikings history. He

retired after last season.

The Carrington native was a two-time NCAA Division II All

America tight end while at UND in the late 1990s.

The 2012 class also includes John Christen, a tennis and

wrestling standout in the 1980s, and Louise Ronnerman, a cross

country and track star in the 1990s. UND’s 1997 NCAA Division I

champion men’s hockey team also is being inducted. The ceremony is Sept. 29.