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You might bowl your heart out and give it your all, but bowling is a team sport and so many other factors can come into play that it might seem nothing you can do will ever get you into first place, even if just fleetingly. Here are the top 25 people who had to put in the most weeks of bowling before finally achieving that dream for the first time.

Top 25 Bowlers Who Went The Longest Before Finally Getting To Enjoy First Place
Rank	Bowler	Weeks of Bowling it Took	Starting From	Finally Achieved 1st Place On
1.	Ken M. Wilson	431	Fall 2004, wk. 16	Spring 2019, wk. 16
2.	Ryan Doll	239	Spring 2007, wk. 16	Fall 2013, wk. 16
3.	Dennis Laube	199	Fall 2004, wk. 16	Spring 2008, wk. 16
4.	Phil Schroeder	182	Spring 2005, wk. 16	Spring 2008, wk. 16
5.	Rob Kaszuba	174	Spring 2008, wk. 16	Fall 2013, wk. 16
6.	Freda Schroeder	163	Spring 2005, wk. 16	Spring 2008, wk. 16
7.	Ben Spencer	160	Fall 2017, wk. 16	Fall 2021, wk. 16
8.	Michael Gordon	159	Spring 2014, wk. 16	Fall 2018, wk. 16
9.	Aaron Barber	113	Fall 2015, wk. 16	Fall 2017, wk. 16
10.	Ian Goetz	113	Fall 2011, wk. 16	Spring 2014, wk. 16
11.	Russell Bingham	110	Fall 2015, wk. 16	Fall 2018, wk. 16
12.	Carl Goetz	99	Fall 2004, wk. 16	Fall 2005, wk. 16
13.	Jonathan Vigliaturo	96	Fall 2011, wk. 16	Spring 2014, wk. 16
14.	Bill Krejci	95	Fall 2004, wk. 16	Spring 2007, wk. 16
15.	Andy McLeod	94	Fall 2005, wk. 16	Spring 2014, wk. 16
16.	Scott Murdock	87	Fall 2004, wk. 16	Fall 2004, wk. 16
17.	Nik Domann	86	Fall 2004, wk. 16	Fall 2004, wk. 16
18.	Kris Hiestand	81	Fall 2004, wk. 16	Spring 2007, wk. 16
19.	Dennis Walling	55	Fall 2017, wk. 16	Fall 2018, wk. 16
20.	Matthew Taylor	48	Fall 2017, wk. 16	Fall 2018, wk. 16
21.	Demond Robinson	48	Fall 2004, wk. 16	Fall 2004, wk. 16
22.	Chantal Jacot	47	Fall 2017, wk. 16	Spring 2019, wk. 16
23.	Ariel Waldman	46	Spring 2007, wk. 16	Spring 2007, wk. 16
24.	Seth Gunderson	45	Fall 2004, wk. 16	Fall 2004, wk. 16
25.	Bryan Mohr	35	Spring 2013, wk. 16	Fall 2013, wk. 16

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