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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.	Carl Goetz	371	Fall 2006, wk. 16	Fall 2015, wk. 16
2.	Seth Gunderson	261	Fall 2006, wk. 16	Spring 2014, wk. 16
3.	Michael Gordon	227	Spring 2014, wk. 16	Midsummer 2021, wk. 8
4.	Ben Spencer	208	Fall 2016, wk. 16	Spring 2023, wk. 16
5.	Dennis Laube	151	Fall 2006, wk. 16	Fall 2006, wk. 16
6.	Dennis Walling	123	Fall 2017, wk. 16	Midsummer 2021, wk. 8
7.	Matthew Taylor	115	Fall 2017, wk. 16	Midsummer 2021, wk. 8
8.	Aaron Barber	113	Fall 2015, wk. 16	Fall 2017, wk. 16
9.	Ian Goetz	113	Spring 2014, wk. 16	Spring 2014, wk. 16
10.	John Boren	109	Spring 2016, wk. 16	Spring 2016, wk. 16
11.	Thomas Lin	98	Fall 2006, wk. 16	Fall 2006, wk. 16
12.	Jonathan Vigliaturo	96	Spring 2014, wk. 16	Spring 2014, wk. 16
13.	Andy McLeod	94	Fall 2006, wk. 16	Spring 2014, wk. 16
14.	Stefan Miller	29	Fall 2006, wk. 16	Fall 2006, wk. 16
15.	Nick Kinney	16	Fall 2017, wk. 16	Fall 2017, wk. 16
16.	Dave Hickerson	8	Fall 2006, wk. 16	Fall 2006, wk. 16
17.	Lindsey Campbell	6	Midsummer 2021, wk. 8	Midsummer 2021, wk. 8

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