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Willie Bittner on finding the Oktoberfest medallion with his friend Kerry Pischke

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September 24, 2024

Friends and medallion hunters Kerry Pischke (left) and Willie Bittner pose at the Oktoberfest Grounds on Sept. 23, 2024, a day after finding the medallions (PHOTO: Brad Williams)

Willie Bittner joins La Crosse Talk telling us how he helped find this year’s Oktoberfest medallion, along with his friend Kerry Pischke and the kids.

La Crosse Talk airs weekdays at 6-9 a.m. Listen on the WIZM app, online here, or on 92.3 FM / 1410 AM / 106.7 FM (north of Onalaska). Find all the podcasts here or subscribe to La Crosse Talk PM wherever you get your podcasts.

It took seven clues to find it, which happened on Sunday.

We talk about those clues and tried to pry some secrets out of Bittner on just how to decipher them, as this was the second time he’s found the medallion — the first being back in 2013, atop Grandad Bluff.

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Rick Solem

Host of WIZM's La Crosse Talk PM | University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point graduate | Hometown: Greenville, Wis | Avid noonball basketball player and sand volleyballer in La Crosse