Could be an early morning finish for the Kusko

Richie Diehl is the first to make it to the final stop before the finish. His official time in is 10:24pm AKST. He will take a mandatory 4 hour rest before he can continue. He can leave at 2:24am Sunday. There's 46-48 miles of trail left for his team, so that gets him into the finish in possibly five hours or less. Start watching around 7am AKST just to be sure.

Pete Kaiser looks to be the next team in followed by Father Alexander Larson and Nicolas Petit. An official press release posted tonight that earlier today Petit took a wrong turn coming into the halfway point and lost up to potentially 16 minutes. It was determined that his mistake was due to a poorly marked trail (reported by Richie Diehl) and race officials decided to "give back" 10 minutes to Petit who only had to take a 50 minute layover in Tuluksak #3 checkpoint this afternoon. 

Isaac Underwood rounds out the top five. It's anyone's guess who can push and make it into 2nd place. As with a lot of races, it seems 2nd is where the real excitement will be.

So get a couple minutes of shut eye and be ready for an early morning finish! Looks like another Homegrown Team will be taking this championship.