ST. PAUL — The Minnesota Vikings’ chances for getting a decision this year from state lawmakers on financing for a new football stadium plummeted Wednesday, pushing resolution of the issue past the date when the team’s current lease binding it to Minnesota runs out.

Gov. Mark Dayton emerged from a late afternoon meeting with legislative leaders to declare the stadium push in “limbo,” complaining that leading lawmakers wouldn’t get on board with his plan to call a special legislative session in late November to vote on financing for a stadium to replace the Metrodome.

“My timetable has been rejected by the Legislature,” said Dayton, a Democrat. “Now the question is, what’s their timetable?”

Earlier in the day, as word spread that House Speaker Kurt Zellers opposed a special session, a Minnesota Vikings executive warned that delaying the issue until next year’s regular session would increase the project’s already hefty cost. Vice President Lester Bagley stopped short of saying the team would pull up stakes, but noted that after this season the Vikings “will be the only team without a lease.”

“The strategy of avoiding a stadium issue has not worked,” Bagley said. “It only gets more costly and more difficult to resolve, especially if they allow the lease to expire with no action.”

Following the afternoon blowup, the Vikings released a statement calling the turn of events “very disappointing.”

Zellers, in an email sent Tuesday night to his 71 House GOP colleagues, said the issue should wait until lawmakers convene the 2012 session in January. The Vikings have four remaining home games in their Metrodome lease, and whispers of relocation have run throughout the stadium discussion. There has been little outward recruiting of the Vikings by Los Angeles or other cities seeking an NFL presence, though Dayton has said he takes the prospect seriously that failure to act could mean losing the team.

Zellers and Senate Republican Leader Amy Koch would reveal few details of their meeting with Dayton, and Zellers declined to explicitly repeat the contents of his email, calling it a private communication to colleagues. But both said the Legislature should hold public hearings on various questions of the stadium debate, including where to locate it among several prospective sites and the best source of public money to pay for it, before lawmakers proceed with a special session.

Dayton doesn’t need the Legislature’s consent to call a special session, but lawmakers determine how long it lasts once they’re back in St. Paul. Governors typically avoid calling a session without mutual agreement on an agenda.