CASPER, Wyo. (AP) - With the recent withdrawal of two of the three finalists for the position of University of Wyoming president, Gov. Dave Freudenthal says it's time to start the search process over again.

The university trustees were scheduled to have a conference call on Thursday to decide how to proceed with the selection process.

"I hope that ultimately, they take a deep breath, calm down, and start all over again," Freudenthal said Wednesday.

The search process has fallen apart in the last few days. UW interim President Tom Buchanan is now the last candidate standing after the other two finalists announced they were withdrawing their names from consideration.

Buchanan wasn't selected as a finalist by the search committee, but his name was added by the trustees late last week. On Monday, North Dakota State University President Joseph Chapman announced he was no longer interested in the Wyoming position. On Tuesday, the other finalist, University of Tennessee-Knoxville Chancellor Loren Crabtree, also bowed out.

Critics, including some trustees, have said the trustees themselves harmed the search process when they reinstated Buchanan as a finalist under pressure from university faculty.

"I say the search process had absolute integrity until right here at the end," trustee Tom Spicer said. "It wasn't the search committee that injected the lack of integrity in it.

"If we were to go back and search again, this will be well known, and it will poison the kind of people we like to appeal to next time. This is just a disaster for the university. In my heart of hearts, I'm really disappointed."