83 Athletes One Step Closer On Road to $2 Million, Final Field Readies for The American Rodeo Central Regional Finals in Oklahoma

Catch the final night of action in Oklahoma City LIVE on FS1 Saturday, April 18 at 8PM ET
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. (April 18, 2026) – As barrel racers, steer wrestlers and team ropers all raced against the clock earlier in the day – the best saddle bronc, bareback and bull riders squared off on Friday night at The American Rodeo Central Regional’s Semi-Finals inside of Oklahoma City’s OG&E Coliseum.

When the extreme round ended seven bull riders and 10 athletes in both saddle bronc and bareback moved forward to Saturday’s final round, where they’ll join athletes who advanced from the Super Qualifiers.

Each season 27 winning athletes leave three Regionals held in the East, Central and West regions with $10,000 each before they get to Globe Life Field in Arlington, Texas for The American Rodeo Championship Weekend.

Watch live on Saturday, April 18 at 8PM ET on FS1 as 111 total Qualifiers get one step closer to $2 million at The American Rodeo Central Regional Finals.

SADDLE BRONC

1 Ethan Cart

2 Kolby Wanchuk

3 Wyatt Casper

4 Will Pollock

5 Kade Bruno

6 Zac Dallas

7 Weston Patterson

8 Shorty Garrett

9 Tanner Hayes

10 James Perrin

BAREBACK

1 Weston Timberman

2 Cooper Cooke

3 Jacob Lees

4 Kade Berry

5 Bodee Lammers

6 R.C. Landingham

7 Connor Griffith

8 Leighton Berry

9 Ty Pope

10 Bryce Eck

BULL RIDING

1 Shane Scott

2 Colton Byram

3 Daniel Caetano Feitosa

4 Garrett Uptain

5 Chase Wimer

6 Josh Frost

7 Matt Palmer (Advanced from Super Qualifier)

Earlier in the day hopeful contestants chasing the life-changing $2 million bonus on the line at The American Rodeo Championship Weekend May 22-23 at Globe Life Field in Arlington, Texas battled for the top spots in barrel racing, steer wrestling and team roping. The athletes advancing from those afternoon rounds to Saturday’s final round in Oklahoma City are:

BARREL RACING

1 Samantha Willoughby

2 Brandon Cullins

3 Hadlee Landers

4 Skyla Peters

5 Helen Nowosad

6 Katelyn Scott

7 Taylor Gessley

8 Lindsay Sears

9 Heidi Gunderson

10 Alyssa Urbanek-Wade

11 Jimmie Smith

12 Janna Brown

13 Mindy Holloway

14 Loralee Ward (Advanced from Super Qualifier)

STEER WRESTLING

1 Garrett Oates

2 Emmett Edler

3 Thomas Uttermark

4 Bray Armes

5 Riley Barber

6 Sawyer Strand

7 Don Payne

8 Travis Munro

9 Denell Henderson

10 Riley Duvall

11 Marc Joiner

12 Renato Finazzi

13 Tyler Bauerle

14 Jacob Edler (Advanced from Super Qualifier)

TEAM ROPING

1 Coleman Proctor / Travis Graves

2 Levi James / LJ Yeahquo

3 Trevor Brazile / Treston Brazile

4 Aaron Tsinigine / Paul Eaves

5 Tyler Wade / Wesley Thorp

6 Shay Carroll / Denton Dunning

7 Erich Rogers / Cory Petska

8 Billy Bob Brown / Blaine Vick

9 Chad Masters/ Jace Helton

10 Conley Kleinhans / Kyler Kanady

11 Cody Snow/ Hunter Koch

12 JC Yeahquo / Logan Moore

13 Jacob Stansbury / Kase Key

14 Rhen Richard / Kollin VonAhn (Advanced from Super Qualifier)

Live results, scoring and more can be found online – HERE.

Replays of the action in the arena on Friday will be on Cowboy+ and fans can subscribe at https://get.cowboyplus.com.