MONTICELLO - Don't skip "The Price is Right" show on Monday: That's when Ryan Ritschard, Monticello, expects his turn as a major player on the game show to be broadcast.
"You don't know what to think," Ritschard said about being called to "come on down" to play the game. "I'm like the most unlucky, unlikely guy in the world."
Ritschard, 21, and his Monticello High School friends, Jeremy Wahl, 20; Brandon Holz, 19; Andy Pusel, 20; and Al Gierhart, 20, were vacationing in California in July when they ordered free tickets online to "The Price is Right," hosted by comedian Drew Carey.
"We just thought it would be interesting," Ritschard said about their decision to spend vacation time in a television studio instead of warm, sandy beaches.
At the CBS studios in Los Angeles, the audience members were interviewed. "The man in charge" - who was not Drew Carey, Ritschard said - asked them who they were, where they were from and what they did.
"I don't know how they choose which names to put into a smaller group (of people to call to the stage)," Ritschard said.
But when the man in charge discovered they were from the Midwest, he said, "Your people like this show."
Ritschard, stunned and in shock, got called down onto the stage, without tripping, and played the game.
"You can't hear your name; everyone is shouting," he said.
Ritschard didn't even know his name was called until someone hit him on the shoulder.
Ritschard can't announce what he won, as per the studio rules, and the few close family members whom he has tried to tell didn't believe he won anything, until letters from the studio started arriving.
Let's just say he played well - he'll make the people of Wisconsin proud.
"You don't know what to think," Ritschard said about being called to "come on down" to play the game. "I'm like the most unlucky, unlikely guy in the world."
Ritschard, 21, and his Monticello High School friends, Jeremy Wahl, 20; Brandon Holz, 19; Andy Pusel, 20; and Al Gierhart, 20, were vacationing in California in July when they ordered free tickets online to "The Price is Right," hosted by comedian Drew Carey.
"We just thought it would be interesting," Ritschard said about their decision to spend vacation time in a television studio instead of warm, sandy beaches.
At the CBS studios in Los Angeles, the audience members were interviewed. "The man in charge" - who was not Drew Carey, Ritschard said - asked them who they were, where they were from and what they did.
"I don't know how they choose which names to put into a smaller group (of people to call to the stage)," Ritschard said.
But when the man in charge discovered they were from the Midwest, he said, "Your people like this show."
Ritschard, stunned and in shock, got called down onto the stage, without tripping, and played the game.
"You can't hear your name; everyone is shouting," he said.
Ritschard didn't even know his name was called until someone hit him on the shoulder.
Ritschard can't announce what he won, as per the studio rules, and the few close family members whom he has tried to tell didn't believe he won anything, until letters from the studio started arriving.
Let's just say he played well - he'll make the people of Wisconsin proud.