The NKF Heartland Tour for a Cure Opening Season 1998 (Part Two)

If you are joining the story for the first time I ask that you click here to first read Part One so that you have context.

Just prior to what would have been our opener at Webster City, Loni Woodley came through with a second title sponsor commitment, this one from Toyota Industrial Products and since we had already announced our posted point funds for the inaugural Tour we decided to give the entire $10,000 check directly to the NKF of Iowa. This press release covers that as well as some details from our Contingency sponsors that first season.

Al Uhrhammer, then the promoter at the Hamilton County Speedway in Webster City was quick to respond to a proposal to hold an NKF Tour event and when we talked on the phone he gave me a brief description why. Jerry Dixon who had been a longtime competitor at his hometown track was in charge of track prep for Uhrhammer and having the NKF Tour race in Webster City was especially important to him. "We are very proud to race for this cause because of our personal interest in it," Dixon later wrote to me. "We have a grandchild with a form of Nephrotic Kidney Syndrome and she has had some very rough times lately and over the years. When we needed special equipment for her, the NKF was more than happy to help in whatever way they could. We are very grateful."

So when that opening race of the Tour was weathered out at Webster City, Uhrhammer made sure that we were rescheduled as quickly as possible and that would be on Thursday May 7th with both divisions running in support of the Deery Brothers Summer Series. The weather threatened once again, likely holding down the car count some, but we were able to get the show in with the following results.

Running the NKF Tour events in his area was also important to Jerry Dixon's brother Allen who was a frequent winner at the Hamilton County Speedway in Webster City

I am hoping that I had the common sense to have the second newsletter printed and mailed prior to the May 8th issue date, otherwise that would have been a late night drive back from Webster City to get it printed, prepared and mailed that next day. In that newsletter you will see that we were starting to get some extra help and support from folks like Steve Hurst at Dubuque Logistics, Clete and Vaneta Ward at The Pit Stop Bar and Grill as well as Kirchoff Distributing. We also had to make our first non-weather related change to the schedule when the race at Audubon was dropped due to poetential scheduling conflicts at other tracks.

Verne Schumann was not your typical race track owner/promoter. He did not have an outgoing personality and while he did not come off as a "risk taker", if you look back on it now he was actually quite innovative with his promotions at the privately owned Hawkeye Raceway between Muscatine and Blue Grass. In my eyes Verne was a shrewd businessman and a perfectionist as he was the first promoter that you would have ever seen driving equipment onto the track to do some quick grooming as the next race was lining up behind him. Also at that time the local dirt track season pretty much wrapped up by the end of September, but he was the first to stretch it into October with an annual three race series of Sunday events. 

When I sent out the proposals it was my hope that I could get him to feature the NKF Tour on one or two of the Fall events, but instead he scheduled us twice in that opening season, just five weeks apart on May 19th and June 23rd. With those events Verne definitely took advantage of our "no set purse" policy only paying $300 to win the Modifieds and $150 to win the Hobby Stocks, but to be fair we were running as the support classes to $1,000-to-win UMP Late Model shows. Still I felt that it was important that our drivers knew the payouts and that is why you see them in the newsletter above. While I am on this I want to point out that Verne Schumann continued to support the Tour by holding one or two events each season and he did increase the purse, sometimes quite significantly in those future events. He tried us out and then built upon the success, just like a shrewd businessman would do!

The first event at Hawkeye Raceway would be an interesting one for the Hobby Stock division as there really wasn't a true "Hobby Stock" class in east central Iowa. The Street Stocks could run on wider tires and had stock front stubs with tube frames back so they would have a definite competitive advantage over the drivers who were now chasing the Tour. But yet there they were, Steve Holthaus, Jeff Larson and Jason Rohde from northeast Iowa, Webster City winner Bob Dennis from Boone and Jeremy Mills making the long tow down from Marathon and even though they were outmatched by the locals, they held their own as you will see in the story and results that follow.

This night at Hawkeye Raceway turned out to be important as well because it gained us some more "Tour regulars". Finishing seventeenth in the Hobby Stock feature, Scott "Jack" Donlan from Burlington would now be hooked on the series and he would try to compete in every race that he could fit into his schedule. Jack and I became fast friends and we were able to work together for a few season recently when he was the official starter for the Sprint Invaders. Donlan now runs Paisano's Ristorante in Princeton, Illinois, and he checks with me often to see if I will be attending the same Sprint Car race that he will be at because he always puts on a fantastic pre-race tailgate feast. Just one of the many longtime friends that I made while running the NKF Tour.

In the Modifieds Corey Dripps established himself as the Tour point leader with his win at Blue Grass, but the three guys that finished behind him, Rich Smith, Bruce Hanford and John Bull would get hooked on the Tour here and become regular competitors going forward.

The Tour's next stop in Dubuque would produce a thrilling Modified feature event that saw nine lead changes in the twenty-five lap event. Russ Olson would take the win over local star Jason Schueller and Corey Dripps would build on his Tour point lead with another impressive third place run. Once again up against a class that was closer to the Stock Car division than the Hobby Stocks, Tour point leader Steve Holthaus challenged early before fading to fifth as Jeff Kennedy scored the win.

With a pair of short track events up next on the schedule I sent out the following press release.

And as far as I can tell, this is third and final Newsletter that I sent out for that first season. It was a thrill for me to be able to work with Bruce and Tammy Current who were the promoters at Tipton in 1998. I had come to know Bruce and his crew when they would come and compete at the Hawkeyeland Pro Stock Championships held at 34 Raceway just a few years earlier and they are some of the nicest people that I have come across in the sport. A fierce competitor on the track in his traditional red #75, Current and his crew definitely knew how to have a good time after the races, win or lose.

The trip to Decorah would be my first ever visit to the Nordic Speedway and I was excited to get there after listening to the stories being told by Steve Holthaus and Jeff Larson, and even those Hobby Stock drivers were interested to see what the Modifieds would do at the little quarter-mile circle.

Unfortunately rain was the winner at both Tipton and Decorah, but both races were rescheduled for a few weeks down the road. That meant that our next scheduled event would be just 45 miles to the west of my Mount Pleasant home at a track that I visited often during my youth. The Super Half-Mile at the Eldon Raceway always draws a big crowd during one of the first county fairs of the summer and I knew that it would be an opportunity for two of my favorite Modified Tour regulars to try to close in on Corey Dripps in the points chase.

Sadly, the show at Eldon was rained out as well and it was not able to be rescheduled so both Troy Folkerts and Todd Holman would have to continue to hit the road in their efforts to win NKF Tour point fund money.

That would bring us back to Hawkeye Raceway near Blue Grass where we had been just two races ago and the Modified field grew from 17 on our first visit to 24 on this trip. And for the first time I could claim that the entire top five were NKF Tour regulars as point leader Corey Dripps took the win ahead of Darin Thye, Bruce Hanford, John Bull and Rich Smith.

Jim Harland repeated his win in the Hobby Stock main event as Tour regulars Holthaus, Larson, Donlan and Bob Dennis all towed in to compete.

That race at Blue Grass was on a Tuesday and the next night we were on the road again to the northeast Iowa town of Cresco. Recall that Tom Barnes was the first to book an NKF Tour event and this was it. While the Tour had been the support classes at most of our first five race nights, we would be the show here and there was a buzz at the Mighty Howard County Fair. After getting to know Steve Holthaus and Jeff Larson out on the road, it was cool to see them here at their home track where friends, family and fans gathered around them after the races to not only celebrate another feature win by the "Dirty Rat" #70 of Holthaus, but to enjoy the camaraderie that the sport of dirt track racing will produce when you have two such friendly men behind the wheel.

Local favorite Larry Schmidt would win the Modified feature as championship contenders Darin Thye and Corey Dripps would finish fifth and sixth respectively and Boone's Bob Dennis would finish tenth in the Hobby Stock main event as he tried to keep Holthaus in sight.

 

Steve Holthaus made a habit out of winning at is hometown track - Photo provided by Kim Holthaus

The Tour would close out the month of June with the rescheduled visit to the Tipton Speedway where Ryan Dolan would be in the right place at the right time to take the feature win in the Modifieds and Jeff Kennedy cruised to his second NKF Tour victory in the Hobby Stocks.

With seven race nights now in the books we would look to the second half of the season and with no more rainouts we would hold five more Modified races and eight more Hobby Stock events including one that paid $1,000-to-win. All of that to come on Part 3 of the inaugural season of the NKF Tour here on the Back Stretch.

The NKF Heartland Tour for a Cure: Opening Season 1998 (Part One)

One of my proudest accomplishments when it comes to racing was the four year run of the National Kidney Foundation Heartland Tour for a Cure racing series that ran from 1998 through 2001. And while I have some time here during the offseason and while we are all still pretty much "locked down" due to Covid, I wanted to go back and share some of the memories, highlights and even some of stories behind the scenes. For me, it it will be fun to tell these stories and I hope that you will find this trip down memory lane entertaining as well as we salute and digitally archive a racing series that helped those in need.

In 1997 our family business, Broeg and Associates a Direct Mail company that I had been running since my father Larry's unexpected death in 1990, had just suffered a crushing blow when the United States Postal Service decided to more than double the cost of postage on a certain size of merchandise samples. Perhaps you remember getting one ounce sample boxes of General Mills cereal (Trix, Lucky Charms, Raisin Nut Bran, Honey Nut Cheerios, Cinnamon Toast Crunch, etc., etc.) in your mailbox along with a coupon to save money on your next purchase at the grocery store? Well that was the nine of us coordinating each project with General Mills and the Post Office to get those samples delivered to you in the freshest manner possible. Over an eight year period we mailed out over 275 million of these samples with our biggest year being in 1994 when 74 million samples were sent out.

My father had developed a unique and efficient way to do this and we refined it over time, but it was the manner that the other cereal companies were sending out their samples that caught the attention of the USPS and it was that inefficient manner of handling the mail that the Postal Service considered when it came time to adjust their rates in 1997. My colleague at General Mills and I argued the increase all the way to Washington DC showing them why our method should not be included in this massive increase and General Mills closed the argument by stating that if the increase was passed they would never mail another sample again.

The full increase was approved by the Postal Service and while we did mail out one more job of one million pieces that was already in the works after it passed, General Mills kept their word and the Postal Service lost around $7.2 million dollars a year in postage from them. Even though it was nowhere near as targeted and successful as Direct Mail, it was now significantly cheaper for GMI to distribute their samples "in-store" or through Sunday newspapers in metropolitan areas.

We had other clients as well, but by 1997 General Mills made up over 80% of our revenue and since we were now completely frustrated with the Postal Service the difficult decision was made to close Broeg and Associates. To put a wrap on this lead in, the Postal Service came back to me in 2010 asking what they would need to do in order to get companies to start using the mail again for Merchandise samples and after once again giving them the details on how we used to coordinate and distribute the cereal samples, they came up with a new class of mail called Simple Samples that is completely based on our methods. If they had listened to me in 1997 there would have never been an NKF Heartland Tour for a Cure.

I formed a Limited Liability Corporation called J. Broeg Services LLC to finish out the Direct Mail work that we already had in the schedule as well as to perform some of my side jobs such as selling advertising for, and doing play-by-play broadcasts for our local radio station KILJ. Little did I know at that point that it would also be where I would run a racing series from.

I was in the car with my brother-in-law Loni Woodley who was living and working in Cedar Rapids at the time. Loni is the hardest working and most giving person that I know and at the time he was serving on the Board of the Iowa chapter of the National Kidney Foundation while working at Hupp Electric Motors. The NKF of Iowa had partnered with Hawkeye Downs that past summer to have a race night where the fans were encouraged to learn more about the importance of having a signed Organ Donor card and they also had some fun pre-race activities to raise some money for the NKF.

Knowing my love for racing, and knowing that at this point I was looking for my next challenge in life, Loni asked if there would be anyway that I could help him schedule nights like this at other area race tracks. Apparently I had already been considering the possibility of starting a series for both the Modifieds and the Hobby Socks for two years, as you will see from the original press release, (at this point I don't remember that!) so I took him a step further and proposed an actual race series that would get the drivers involved as well at these events.

That was just the start of the process as we traded ideas back and forth until we felt that we had a pretty solid plan and it was there that I have to give credit to Loni Woodley for actually giving birth to the Heartland Tour for a Cure. I can't tell you which one he did first, but there were two major steps to take. A big thank you goes to the Executive Director of the NKF of Iowa at the time, Jodi Enger, who was excited to not only help to get the tour rolling, but she also served as the primary volunteer at most of the events in the inaugural season of 1998. Of course there were hurdles to clear with the NKF, primarily the concern over liability at each event, but we resolved that by requiring each and every track to provide us with a Certificate of Insurance showing both the National Kidney Foundation and J. Broeg Services LLC as named insureds. Loni also secured the title sponsorship for the 1998 season through Hupp with the industrial lifts division of Toshiba International writing a check for $10,000.

We finalized our plans during a winter meeting at Hupp and thankfully I presented a full Business Plan stating the purpose of the Tour, the revenues that it would produce, the expenses that would need to be covered and how the NKF of Iowa would benefit. You will see why I used the word "thankfully" near the end of the fourth and final chapter of this story featuring the 2001 season.

In a nutshell this is how it would work:

NKF Benefits

- Pre-race and event exposure with the opportunity to educate the public on kidney disease

- The opportunity to have race night attendees sign an Organ Donor card

- Half of the 50/50 pot would go to the winner, the other half would go directly to the NKF of Iowa with Jodi Enger organizing volunteers from the US West Pioneers to handle the drawing at each event

- Series t-shirts and sweatshirts were printed with all proceeds going to the NKF of Iowa

Modified drivers would pay a $15 Entry Fee at each event and Hobby Stock drivers would pay an Entry Fee of $10 at each event with that money going to cover my travel, expenses and a nominal fee for my services. Basically I wanted to earn the equivalent of the minimum wage for the time that I was putting in on the Tour both at, and away from the track.

All was agreed upon and my first task was to pitch this unique concept to the track promoters in Iowa as we had no set purse and no set of rules. Our only purse requirement was that the Tow Money for a non-qualifier had to be equal to, or greater than the total amount paid for a pit pass and the NKF Tour entry fee. As for the rules, we would leave that up to each promoter as to the rules that they would want to run. They could keep them tight with their own track rules, or open them up a bit to allow for some more outside drivers, but it was their choice. Can you imagine how skeptical they were? Here was a new "racing series" that was obviously more focused on holding an event and educating the public on the struggles of kidney disease than they were on the racers. While we had hoped to be the headliners at each event, I knew that our best shot at getting scheduled would be as the support class, or classes at special events with the hope of not making a driver have to choose between racing at his or her home track on a Friday or Saturday night, or following the Tour.

I had the advantage of stating that we had $10,000 in the bank with $6,000 going to the Modifieds and $4,000 going to the Hobby Stocks and I was thrilled when Tom Barnes at the Mighty Howard County Fair was the first to respond soon after I sent out the proposals. Just like that we had a race booked during the fair at Cresco on Wednesday June 24th. We were off and running!

Here is the first Press Release that went out to announce the new Tour

In that release you see that each Contingency Sponsor paid $100 directly into the point fund and then provided product certificates to be awarded to the drivers at each event. These sponsors stepped up in that inaugural season:

Real Racing Wheels, Independence, Iowa

McDaniel Racing Enterprises, Eldon, Iowa

Race Mart, Memphis, Missouri

Midwest Motorsports, Ames, Iowa

Krug Racing Stables, Buckingham, Iowa

Sardeson Racing, Greenwood, Nebraska

Back in 1998 use of the internet was just getting started so my primary way of contacting drivers was through a Newsletter and on the right side of Volume 1, Issue 1 you will see the first schedule for the 1998 NKF Tour featuring seventeen events at fifteen different tracks, all in the state of Iowa. Honestly, I cannot recall where or how I came up with the initial mailing list of drivers, but it grew to nearly 500 by the time we stopped using the mail and started to use the internet.

How about those Point Funds? Not too bad for the first season of a new racing series and the Hobby Stock drivers in particular were thrilled to finally have an opportunity to follow a Tour. There are tours/series today that don't even come close to these numbers and require drivers to pay a $50 entry fee at each event.

So by early March the schedule was set and I was preparing to kick things off in just a few weeks in Webster City when out of the blue I get a phone call from none other than legendary Knoxville Raceway promoter Ralph Capitani. Now I can't even remember if I had sent a proposal to Knoxville or not for that first season, but he wasn't calling me about the NKF Tour. He was calling to ask if I would be interested in becoming one of the track announcers at the Sprint Car Capital of The World! Both Jack Herwehe and Tim Trier had retired from their positions after the 1997 season and, since I was now being called on March 7th I am going to assume today that I wasn't necessarily his first choice, but even so what an incredible honor to be asked.

After doing a couple of events in 1982, I became the regular track announcer at 34 Raceway in Burlington in 1983 and over the next six seasons I was the voice of as many as four different speedways at one time with weekly stints in Donnellson, West Liberty, Davenport and yes, I was the first track announcer at Hawkeye Downs after it was paved. I was a proud employee of who I believe was one of the greatest race promoters anywhere, Larry Kemp, and his travels also allowed me to announce some IMCA Modified Winter Series events at several different tracks in Florida. I was also given opportunities to announce special events that were not promoted by Kemp including the Ice Bowl at the Talladega Short Track and I was even welcomed in as a guest announcer at the Knoxville Nationals, one year doing most of the Friday night program after it had been postponed to Sunday.

When I got married to my beautiful wife Christine in 1989 that also gave me the opportunity to be a father to her two young children, Ashley and Kyle. And when we soon found out that we would be having one of our own a little more than nine months after the wedding I decided that I would no longer be a weekly track announcer. It was a good thing that I made that choice as just shy of two months after our son Morgan was born in March of 1990, I received an early morning phone call letting me know that my Dad had died of a heart attack at the age of forty-nine. Newly married and now with three young children and a business to run, there would have been no way that I would have been able to maintain a schedule of working weekly at two or three different tracks, but thankfully I was still being asked to come back and announce special events here and there as well as filling in for some of my announcer friends when they needed to take a night off.

As one of the two regular announcers for the Sprint Invader series over the past several seasons I am proud to say that I have announced at least one night of racing every year since 1982, so 2021 will be my 40th year behind the microphone!

A few of those cameo appearances in the 1990's had been for the IMCA Late Model Summer Series events at Knoxville and Mr. Capitani had apparently been impressed enough by those to give this "taxi cab announcer", as I would become known to the team of officials at Knoxville, the invitation to join that team in 1998. Knowing that none of our NKF Tour events for that first season had been scheduled on a Saturday that would conflict at Knoxville, I jumped at the opportunity, and a couple of the highlights from that job included the call of the first ever sub fifteen second lap by Don Droud Jr. in qualifying, giving the starting lineup for the Saturday night A-Main before handing the mic off to the legendary Jack Miller for his 25th and final call of the Knoxville Nationals, interviewing a jubilant Danny Lasoski a few minutes later after he won his first Nationals, and spending every Saturday night in the booth with young Tony Bokhoven who had spent the season before reporting from the pit area. I still jokingly claim that I taught him everything that he knows, but I know that there is more Trier, Herwehe and Miller in Bokhoven's spectacular style than there is Broeg as he truly is one of the best in the business to this day.

So I'm not sure which one was exactly my "side gig" in 1998, announcing at Knoxville or starting the NKF Tour, but what a letdown it was when our first event at Webster City on April 4th could not be run due to lingering winter weather. That meant that our opener would now be at the Southern Iowa Speedway in Oskaloosa on April 22nd. As you may have seen in that first Newsletter we had a unique situation with our shows at Osky, not only at this first one, but at all of the events that we would run there over the years. While Wednesday is an off night for most tracks, it is the weekly race night in Oskaloosa so the last thing that myself, or promoters Joe & Jim Durian wanted to do was force one of their weekly drivers to pay the NKF Tour Entry fee if they had no interest in running the Tour, so the drivers were given the option to participate or not. By paying the entry fee a driver would be eligible for the NKF Tour points and contingency awards, plus Bert McDaniel at McDaniel Racing Enterprises in Eldon sweetened the pot by offering a $60 cash bonus to the highest finishing Modified driver, and a $40 cash bonus to the highest finishing Hobby Stock driver who had paid the fee.

There weren't many, but yes I was disappointed by the few drivers who chose not to participate, but who could blame them? This was the first race ever for some "Tour" that seemed to be more about raising funds and awareness for a charity and if you were only going to race weekly at Oskaloosa there was no point in pitching in the extra money. I was thrilled though at some of the "travelers" that pulled in for that first show. In the Modifieds you had Tim McBride from Evansdale, Darin Thye from Burlington and Corey Dripps from Cedar Falls while in the Hobby Stocks Steve Holthaus from Cresco, Doug McCollough from Webster City, Jeff Larson from New Hampton, Jeremy Mills from Marathon, Randy Embrey from Granger and Jason Rohde from Fayette had all made the trip indicating that they had set a goal of following the Tour in its first season. Of course several of the Oskaloosa regulars would become Tour followers as well, perhaps by plan, or maybe because of that first exposure to what we were trying to do. I also see my good friend and fellow announcer Jeff Kropf of Ottumwa in the Modified results. I wonder if remembers that he participated in that first NKF Tour event?

Here is the story and the full results from that first race.

While we recognized the drivers who won the McDaniel Racing Enterprises bonuses at the track, you will notice that there is no mention of them in the story. I know that Steve Holthaus paid the Entry Fee as he was there to start running the NKF Tour. As of this day I cannot tell you whether or not track regular Gordy Grubb paid to participate and that is good because the last thing that I would have wanted to do would be to "call out" somebody in the story for either participating or not.

By the end of the night it didn't matter to me as each and every driver, and each and every fan had participated in the first ever National Kidney Foundation Heartland Tour for a Cure event. And it was a good one!

Jeff Larson won his heat race and finished 14th in the Tour opener at Oskaloosa. He and his good friend Steve Holthaus would be NKF Tour regulars all four seasons.

Coming up in part two here on the Back Stretch, more stories and results from that opening season.

Cumulative All Iowa Points 305 Sprint Cars 2006 Through 2020

Adding in the points from the 2020 racing season finally made some movement at the top of the Cumulative All Iowa Points list for the 305 Sprint Cars from 2006 through 2020. The original champion of the division Bruce Anderson of Trimont, Minnesota, (2006) continues to set the pace, but there are now two new names nipping at his heels in second and third. Two-time champion Tyler Drueke (2016, 2019) makes a big jump from eighth to second after finishing as the runner-up in the 2020 points race and Ryan Voss moves three spots from sixth to third after finishing in a tie for fifth this past season. Those moves drop both Jayson Dittsworth and the 2008 champion Donnie Steward two positions each to fourth and fifth on this list.

Bruce Anderson - Todd K & Carla S Race Photos 

Jason Martin also slips two spots to sixth while the 2020 champion Dusty Ballenger jumps from twelfth to seventh. Ballenger was also the All Iowa Points 360 Sprint Car champion in 2003. Two-time champion Clint Benson (2014-15) settles into eighth, Tyler Thompson is now ninth and 2007 champion Matt Stephenson completes the top ten while the 2017 champion Jarrod Schneiderman drops one spot to eleventh.

For a summary of how and why the points are tabulated visit the Points Page at Positively Racing. The final standings for 2020 can be found there now and the points are updated there weekly during the racing season.

All Iowa Points 305 Sprints Total Points

Pos Driver Hometown 2006 - 2020

1 . Bruce Anderson Trimont MN 324

2 . Tyler Drueke Eagle NE 261

3 . Ryan Voss Okoboji 256

4 . Jayson Dittsworth Burlington 253

5 . Donnie Steward Burlington 250

6 . Jason Martin Liberal KS 246

7 . Dusty Ballenger Harrisburg SD 233

8 . Clint Benson Papillion NE 226

9 . Tyler Thompson Des Moines 223

10 . Matt Stephenson Des Moines 207

11 . Jarrod Schneiderman West Burlington 199

12 . Adam Gullion Lincoln NE 197

13 . Casey Friedrichsen Arthur 181

14 . Trevor Grossenbacher Hickman NE 175

15 . Bill Boles Harris 172

16 . Matthew Stelzer Omaha NE 171

17 . Mike Boston Alvo NE 168

18 . Kevin Hetrick Gladstone IL 167

19 . Ryan Jamison Mediapolis 160

20 . Justin Newberry Burlington 159

21 . Toby Chapman Panama NE 149

22 . Bob Hildreth Iowa Falls 148

23 . Colin Smith Sheldon 143

24 . Joey Danley Lincoln NE 143

25 . Kalob Johnson Sioux Falls SD 140

26 . John Schulz West Burlington 137

27 . Mike Moore Des Moines 135

28 . Mike Houseman Jr. Des Moines 134

29 . Elliot Amdahl Flandreau SD 132

30 . Bobby Mincer Burlington 130

31 . Daniel Bergquist Burlington 129

32 . Devin Kline Knoxville 127

33 . Marty Stephenson Mitchellville 126

34 . Frank Phipps Everly 125

35 . Doug Lovegrove Waverly NE 121

36 . Matt Moro Polk City 119

37 . Stu Snyder Waverly NE 117

38 . Casey Abbas Lennox SD 116

39 . Tanner Gebhardt Burlington 113

40 . Jesse Lindberg Sioux Falls SD 111

41 . Brayden Gaylord Wever 110

42 . Nate Eakin Milford 107

43 . Steve Breazeale Trenton MO 105

44 . Chris Walraven Knoxville 99

45 . Shayle Bade Lincoln NE 99

46 . Ben Wagoner Emden IL 95

47 . Mike Mayberry Fremont 94

48 . Harold Pohren New London 93

49 . Tasker Phillips Knoxville 92

50 . Chad Huston Jamesport MO 91

51 . Michael Johnston Des Moines 91

52 . Mike Blomstrom Lakeville MN 91

53 . Brian Hetrick Gladstone IL 89

54 . Robby Wolfgang Sioux Falls SD 87

55 . Eric Bridger Winterset 83

56 . J Kinder Linn MO 80

57 . Matt Krieger Burlington 79

58 . Austin Johnson Minneapolis MN 78

59 . John Lambertz Sioux Falls SD 77

60 . Mark Widmar Ottumwa 77

61 . Nick Guernsey Burlington 75

62 . Dustin Clark Eldon 72

63 . Justin Parrish Oquawka IL 72

64 . Terry Richards Denton NE 72

65 . Steve Yarns Jackson MN 71

66 . Jack Dover Springfield NE 69

67 . Brady Forbrook Morgan MN 67

68 . Jason Danley Lincoln NE 67

69 . Kade Higday Pleasant Hill 67

70 . Jake Bubak Arvada CO 66

71 . Dan Keltner Wapello 65

72 . Dustin Whiting Burlington 64

73 . Shon Pointer Grand Island NE 64

74 . Andy Huston Roseville IL 63

75 . Mitchell Alexander Knoxville 63

76 . Dave Getchell Sperry 62

77 . Ben Woods Newton 60

78 . Brant O'Banion Sioux Falls SD 59

79 . Ryan Leavitt Knoxville 59

80 . Larry Ball Jr. Knoxville 58

81 . Christian Bowman Altoona 57

82 . Rob Kubli Milo 56

83 . Stacey Alexander Knoxville 56

84 . Louis Lynch Glenwood MO 54

85 . Trevor Serbus Redwood Falls MN 54

86 . Alan Ambers Knoxville 53

87 . Matt Richards Lincoln NE 53

88 . Jamie Ball Knoxville 49

89 . Shane Quam Gladstone IL 47

90 . Cody Wehrle Burlington 46

91 . Tony Davis Monmouth IL 46

92 . McKenna Haase Carlisle 45

93 . Bill Johnson St. Peter MN 44

94 . Brandon Allen Arlington MN 44

95 . Devin Wignall Altoona 44

96 . Doug Bratrud Jackson MN 43

97 . John Draper Bryant IL 43

98 . Russell Wiese Lake Park 43

99 . Derrik Lusk Jackson MN 42

100 . Jake Nicoson Ringsted 41

101 . C.J. Houseman Des Moines 39

102 . Gene Ackland Martell NE 39

103 . Daniel Nekolite O'Neill NE 38

104 . Evan Epperson Muscatine 38

105 . Kelby Watt Adel 38

106 . Mike Van Haaften Pella 38

107 . Mark Hodgins Spencer 36

108 . Shadrach Sporaa Boone 36

109 . Trevor Smith Sheldon 36

110 . Jared Jansen Sioux Falls SD 35

111 . Russ Hall Pleasant Hill 35

112 . Bob Lamb Mitchellville 34

113 . Michael Stien Ceylon MN 33

114 . Shane Fick Brandon SD 33

115 . Travis Lain Des Moines 33

116 . Jeff Wilke Genoa IL 32

117 . Ryan King Bennet NE 32

118 . Corey Kautz Urbandale 31

119 . Josh Padellford Pleasantville 31

120 . Devin Friedrichsen Arthur 29

121 . Curt Thurmer Jackson MN 28

122 . Clint Garner Sioux Falls SD 27

123 . Joel Thorpe Des Moines 27

124 . Tommy Barber Brandon SD 27

125 . Dalton Johnson Sioux Falls SD 26

126 . Jeff Metli Mason City 26

127 . Nathan Murders Burlington 26

128 . Micah Slendy Sioux Falls SD 26

129 . Brandon Worthington Indianola 25

130 . Jordan Nordstrom Sioux Falls SD 25

131 . Josh Schneiderman Burlington 25

132 . Ryan Yager Ringsted 25

133 . Zach Blurton Quinter KS 25

134 . Randy Rinehard Fort Dodge 24

135 . Chris Thram Sanborn MN 24

136 . Jeff Edgington Sioux Falls SD 23

137 . Rager Phillips Pleasantville 23

138 . Ryan Kitchen Lincoln NE 23

139 . Val Urman Roseville MN 23

140 . Andy Krieger Burlington 22

141 . Carson McCarl Altoona 22

142 . John Carney Horizon TX 22

143 . Wyatt Wilkerson Morning Sun 22

144 . Brandon Bosma Round Lake MN 21

145 . Brandon Horton Omaha NE 21

146 . Jake Erickson Jackson MN 21

147 . Jody Rosenboom Rock Rapids 21

148 . Chase Young Des Moines 20

149 . Dillan Roth Burlington 20

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