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. | Carl Goetz | 403 | Fall 2004, wk. 16 | Fall 2016, wk. 16 |
| 2. | Michael Gordon | 227 | Fall 2016, wk. 16 | Midsummer 2021, wk. 8 |
| 3. | Aaron Barber | 177 | Fall 2016, wk. 16 | Fall 2019, wk. 16 |
| 4. | Jonathan Vigliaturo | 174 | Fall 2016, wk. 16 | Fall 2016, wk. 16 |
| 5. | John Boren | 125 | Fall 2016, wk. 16 | Fall 2016, wk. 16 |
| 6. | Dennis Walling | 123 | Fall 2019, wk. 16 | Midsummer 2021, wk. 8 |
| 7. | Matthew Taylor | 115 | Fall 2019, wk. 16 | Midsummer 2021, wk. 8 |
| 8. | Scott Murdock | 87 | Fall 2004, wk. 16 | Fall 2004, wk. 16 |
| 9. | Nik Domann | 86 | Fall 2004, wk. 16 | Fall 2004, wk. 16 |
| 10. | Nick Kinney | 78 | Fall 2019, wk. 16 | Fall 2019, wk. 16 |
| 11. | Demond Robinson | 48 | Fall 2004, wk. 16 | Fall 2004, wk. 16 |
| 12. | Seth Gunderson | 45 | Fall 2004, wk. 16 | Fall 2004, wk. 16 |
| 13. | Lindsey Campbell | 6 | Midsummer 2021, wk. 8 | Midsummer 2021, wk. 8 |
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