A guy named Orville Burke from New York, whose girlfriend spent much of the day with me cooking potatoes in the microwave, took third in the heavies. Fourth place in the heavies went to Dave Palumbo, who had won the Junior Nationals, but had some trouble holding in his belly in Dallas. He weighed in at a huge 266, biggest guy there, and ripped to shreds. His routine was fun, especially watching this absolutely enormous guy run around the stage almost on tiptoes. Lots of politics, from what I understand.
Stallings is formidable.
As impressive as what was happening on stage were the happenings in the auditorium. There were lots of other big people who must be someone too, but I didn't know who they were. I left feeling very skinny and much more worried about getting as ripped as I possibly can for the ANBC Nationals in 3 weeks. Of course, all of those guys in the hotel kept wondering why this skinny guy was eating all of these funny bodybuilder foods, even after the contest was over.