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A stepladder finals already looks key for Player of the Year as Bill O’Neill earns top seed for 2024 PBA Pete Weber Missouri Classic

JEFF RICHGELS | Posted: Friday, February 16, 2024 11:55 pm
A stepladder finals already looks key for Player of the Year as Bill O’Neill earns top seed for 2024 PBA Pete Weber Missouri Classic
The stepladder finalists for the 2024 PBA Pete Weber Missouri Classic, left to right from first to fifth: Bill O'Neill, E.J. Tackett, Matt Russo, A.J. Johnson, Anthony Simonsen. Photo by PBA.
With the front-loaded PBA Tour schedule, it’s quite possible — even likely — that 2024 Player of the Year could be decided before summer begins. But it seems odd to call a non-major tournament in February potentially key in that race. Yet that is exactly what the 2024 PBA Pete Weber Missouri Classic seems, with Bill O’Neill the top seed for Sunday’s stepladder finals, followed by E.J. Tackett, Matt Russo, A.J. Johnson, and Anthony Simonsen. Consider that there have...