Faces & Names: Hermantown native half of Hottest Engaged Couple

One half of the Hottest Engaged Couple is a guitar-playing former hockey goalie from Hermantown currently enlisted in the Navy, according to listeners to a Twin Cities radio station.

Tiegen Brickson, 20, and his fiancée, Keenan Neitzel, 22, of Burnsville, Minn., found out that they had won KDWB 101.3-FM’s contest by phone Monday morning. They will get $500 and tuxedo rental from Savvi Formalwear in the contest on the Dave Ryan Morning Show that was won through audience votes.

Brickson and Neitzel met while he was working at Grandma’s Sports Garden. He wasn’t planning on going into the Navy with a relationship, but:

“We realized we liked each other enough to not break it off before I went into the military,” he said.

They’ve had a long-distance relationship the past two years. Brickson is in Oklahoma and Neitzel is in her final year at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls.

Brickson proposed on a pontoon at his cabin in Iron River, Wis. He had written a song for her on his guitar for the occasion. They will be married in June.

Brickson's proposal song:

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