Running into a lot of problems deleting an admin account

It's a long story, but I'm trying to delete the admin account. Things I have tried:
* Logging out of the unwanted account -> Going to System Preferences -> Unlocking Users & Groups
I tried to use the minus sign to delete the account, but the minus sign is greyed out.
* In response to this, I saw one user on a previous thread about this problem suggest going into Terminal and typing sudo dscl . delete "/Users/Account Name" (replacing "Account Name" with the admin account name). When I tried this, I got this message:
guest1 is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported.
And then Terminal won't let me continue after that.
I'm seriously stuck here. Any help would be appreciated.

I found a solution and deleted the account following the steps from here: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5664658?tstart=0
I'm still running into the guest1 is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported. problem though. I need to get past that.

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I had created a “Guest Account” that I would now like to delete, however I cannot. When I log into my administrator account, go to System Preferences and unlock the lock to allow changes and then select the guest account, the delete [-] for the guest account is dimmed. How do I get rid of this account?

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http://discussions.info.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1521487
From May 14, 2008 as contributed by V.K. to resolve another user's problem:
+"From an admin account uncheck the option enabling Guest account in accounts+
+system preferences and then enter the following command in terminal.+
*sudo dscl . delete /users/Guest*
+Please just copy and paste the above. That's very important, you don't want+
+to delete a wrong thing here. You'll have to enter your admin password which+
+you won't see (that's normal).+
*This command will delete the Guest user.*
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+Guest user afresh and hopefully resolve the password issue. Restart and+
+try the guest user again. Double check and make sure that it's enabled."+
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+{ edited to add more confusion }+

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