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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	387	Spring 2003, wk. 16	Spring 2016, wk. 16
2.	Seth Gunderson	323	Fall 2012, wk. 16	Spring 2016, wk. 16
3.	Ryan Doll	287	Spring 2009, wk. 16	Spring 2015, wk. 16
4.	Michael Gordon	227	Spring 2015, wk. 16	Midsummer 2021, wk. 8
5.	Rob Kaszuba	221	Spring 2009, wk. 16	Spring 2015, wk. 16
6.	Ian Goetz	178	Spring 2015, wk. 16	Spring 2019, wk. 16
7.	David Codding	170	Spring 2003, wk. 16	Fall 2012, wk. 16
8.	Ben Spencer	160	Fall 2016, wk. 16	Fall 2021, wk. 16
9.	Jonathan Vigliaturo	158	Fall 2012, wk. 16	Spring 2016, wk. 16
10.	Angela Bradford	135	Spring 2009, wk. 16	Spring 2009, wk. 16
11.	Bob Brunker	134	Spring 2003, wk. 16	Spring 2009, wk. 16
12.	Aaron Barber	129	Spring 2015, wk. 16	Spring 2018, wk. 16
13.	Dennis Walling	123	Spring 2018, wk. 16	Midsummer 2021, wk. 8
14.	Deena Slinkard	118	Spring 2009, wk. 16	Spring 2009, wk. 16
15.	Matthew Taylor	115	Spring 2018, wk. 16	Midsummer 2021, wk. 8
16.	Cory Chorpenning	95	Spring 2009, wk. 16	Fall 2012, wk. 16
17.	Bryan Mohr	83	Spring 2015, wk. 16	Spring 2015, wk. 16
18.	John Boren	60	Fall 2012, wk. 16	Fall 2012, wk. 16
19.	Chantal Jacot	47	Spring 2019, wk. 16	Spring 2019, wk. 16
20.	Ken M. Wilson	43	Spring 2003, wk. 16	Spring 2003, wk. 16
21.	Scott Murdock	43	Spring 2003, wk. 16	Spring 2003, wk. 16
22.	Nik Domann	42	Spring 2003, wk. 16	Spring 2003, wk. 16
23.	Nick Kinney	31	Spring 2018, wk. 16	Spring 2018, wk. 16
24.	Chris Windham	16	Fall 2021, wk. 16	Fall 2021, wk. 16
25.	Demond Robinson	16	Spring 2003, wk. 16	Spring 2003, wk. 16

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