The one significant remark by Minnesota Vikings co-owner Mark Wilf at the team’s Eagan facility last week was that ownership will wait until the end of the season to determine whether GM Kwesi Adofo-Mensah and coach Kevin O’Connell will receive contract extensions.

That makes sense. The pair was hired two years ago with four-year contracts. In their two seasons, the Vikings are 20-14, but 7-10 last year with no playoff.

Coach Mike Zimmer and GM Rick Spielman each had two years remaining on their Vikings contracts when they were fired in 2022. The Wilfs fired coach Brad Childress in 2010 with two years left on his contract.

It would seem the Vikings would be more inclined to give O’Connell an extension than Adofo-Mensah. It would also be awkward to give O’Connell an extension now and not Adofo-Mensah.

O’Connell is a former NFL quarterback. Adofo-Mensah does not have a football-playing background. Before this month is over, the Vikings were expected to cut both safety Lewis Cine and cornerback Andrew Booth, the first two picks in Adofo-Mensah’s first draft two years ago.

Cine is still expected to be released. On Friday, Booth was dumped on the Cowboys.

That’s been costly.

If Adofo-Mensah isn’t retained, a successor would be expected to have a strong scouting background.

>> On Friday, the Twins got critical news on disabling shoulders of Twins pitchers Joe Ryan and Brock Stewart. Shoulder-arm injuries have become rampant among major league pitchers.

Ken “Hawk” Harrelson, a Hall of Fame broadcaster who spent a year as GM of the White Sox and was in organized baseball for six decades, has a theory regarding pitching injuries.

“You go back 20, 30 years and in those days the seams on the baseball were much higher,” Harrelson said from his home in South Bend, Ind., last week. “Today, the seams are so tight and these kids are having to work so hard to throw a good curveball or a good slider. That’s what’s causing all these Tommy John (surgeries).”

>> Max Johnson, 23, a 6-6, 230-pound quarterback for the North Carolina football team the Gophers host on Aug. 29, is son of former Vikings QB Brad Johnson. The Tar Heels are the third school for Johnson, who left LSU to transfer to Texas A&M before ending up in Chapel Hill.

>> For the first time since 1962, the Gophers are headed to the Rose Bowl on Oct. 12, but that’s only because the Rose Bowl is home stadium for UCLA.

By the way, the Gophers were only able to play in the 1962 Rose Bowl, defeating UCLA 21-3, because faculty at Big Ten champion Ohio State voted to turn down the invitation, fearing the Buckeyes would be viewed as more a football factory than an academic institution.

Minnesota, which had lost 17-7 to Washington in the Rose Bowl the previous season, finished runner-up to Ohio State in 1961 but was chosen as an at-large team because the Big Ten then had a no-repeat rule for the Rose Bowl.

Ohio State professors voted 28-25 against accepting the Rose Bowl invitation. Minnesota faculty voted 108-33 in favor.

>> There were 4,970 entries from 37 countries who tried to qualify for the U.S. Amateur men’s golf championship that begins Monday at Hazeltine National and nearby Chaska Town Course. Among those, 312 qualified at 45 sites. Required were registered handicaps not exceeding 0.4.

Minnesotans who qualified include Sam Udovich, 17, the incoming Cretin-Derham Hall senior; Shorewood’s Gunnar Brown, 22, who’ll be a fifth-year senior at the University of Kansas this fall; East Grand Forks’ Nate Deziel, 24, who plans to turn professional after the tournament; Stillwater’s Ben Warren, 22, the former Gopher, and Minnetonka grad Jacob Pedersen, 24.

Average age of the field is 22.5.

Udovich is the fourth-youngest golfer in the field. His father Mike owns the popular Fireside Lounge in West St. Paul. Among Sam’s favorite movies is “Miracle,” the inspirational story of Herb Brooks’ amateur-laden 1980 USA Olympic men’s hockey gold medal champions that upset the professional Soviet Union.

For motivation, Sam has watched “Miracle” more than 50 times.

>> John Daly II, son of the two-time major winner and a junior at the University of Arkansas, has qualified. He’s compiled a 71.78 scoring average in competition this summer.

>> Tiger Woods’ son Charlie, 15, isn’t among the field. In July at Oakland Hills in Michigan, Charlie missed the cut in the U.S. Junior Amateur, finishing 240th in the 264-player field.

>> Hazeltine will play at 7,552 yards with rough at least four inches off the fairways and as high as eight inches on fringes of greens. Advice from one USGA official: Hit the ball in the fairway.

>> Former Gopher John Harris, who won the U.S. Amateur in 1993 and is a member of Augusta National, is in Florida and was unable to attend last week’s tournament press outing, but on a pre-recorded video said winning the U.S. Amateur championship “changed my life.”

>> Honorary co-chair for the U.S. Amateur is Hall of Fame former Twin Joe Mauer, who is a five-handicapper at Somerset Country Club and last Monday played a few holes at Hazeltine.

>> That was Sean Lehman, son of former British Open champion Tom, winning the Resorters men’s championship the other day at Alexandria Golf Club. Tom, 65, still playing on the PGA Champions Tour, won the Resorters 44 years ago. Sean, from Scottsdale, Arizona., is a senior at Cal-Poly University, and Tom said Sean hits drives at least 50 yards farther than he did in his prime.

>> The Marlins’ recent trade with the Padres for Adam Mazur means Woodbury High School has had two graduates pitching in the major leagues this season. Max Meyer is 2-2 with the Marlins this season.

>> Marshall High grad Trey Lance, 24, who’ll quarterback the Cowboys against the Rams in Sunday’s exhibition opener, has a contract guaranteed for $34.1 million over four years. That’s $12 million more than Vikings QB J.J. McCarthy, 21, who’ll play Sunday against the Raiders.

>> Former Twins marketing whiz Patrick Klinger put together a group of ex-colleagues, including Terry Ryan, Paul Molitor, John Anderson, Billy Smith, Ron Gardenhire, Mark Weber, Gene Glynn, Jim Rantz and Joe Vavra, for a golf outing tribute to new Twins Hall of Famer Ryan at Northfield last Wednesday. Molitor made three birdies.

>> Gary Dotter, who pitched for the Twins at age 19 in 1961, died last week at age 81 from Parkinson’s disease.

>> How Vikings special teams coordinator Matt Daniels expects his players to play: “With their hair on fire.”

>> After more than 70 years playing golf, former Pioneer Press-Minneapolis Star sports newsman Mike Lamey finally got his first hole-in-one, a 162-yard, three-wood shot last week at North Oaks’ No. 15. Hindered by macular degeneration and a seven-minute search around the green for the ball, Lamey’s playing partner found it in the hole.

>> Happy birthday: Lifelong lover of golf Jim Ekman, who plays in a Monday league at Bunker Hills and in the 1951-52 hockey season led Wilson High in St. Paul in goals, turns 90 this month.

>> Admirers of Lou Cotroneo have raised $22,000 to commemorate the legacy of the late Johnson High hockey coaching legend with a bronze plaque and a representation by acclaimed artist Terry Fogarty.

>> An autobiography of former Gophers assistant Tom Moore, considered by Hall of Fame coach Tony Dungy “the greatest assistant football coach in NFL history,” will be released next month.

>> Condolences to the family of Don Giesen, the Union Hall, Minn., amateur baseball icon who died the other day at age 84.