Whoever plays qualifying leader Tanner Owen in the Nebraska men's match play golf championship this week better not expect to pick up ground against him on Players Club's par-5s.



The Husker senior-to-be from Parkville, Missouri, birdied all three Tuesday in a 5-under 66 and was 5 of 6 while taking medalist honors at 7-under 135.

Into the par-5s Tuesday, he hit driver/9-iron, 3-wood/7-iron and 3-wood/9-iron.



"You have to play smart. If you don't have to hit driver or if it's only to get you to a quarter-wedge instead of a half-wedge or full wedge, there's no reward to the risk,'' Owen said. "It's set up shorter than what I'm used to playing, so I have to tell myself, 'You have to hit driving irons, you have to hit 3-woods.'"



Normally as the No. 1 seed, Owen would be in the first pairing Wednesday morning for the first of the day's two rounds. But he gets to sleep in two hours longer.



A thunderstorm suspended the playoff for the final spot in match play - his first-round opponent. Class B boys golf champion Luke Gutschewski, with tour pro dad Scott as caddie, and Gretna's Michael Croker agreed to resume at 7 a.m. Wednesday on the fourth extra hole. They were putting on the par-3 third hole when cloud-to-ground lightning was visible to the west behind them, but finished the hole.



The winner, the last to qualify from the original 5-for-4 playoff, advances to play Owen at 9:30 a.m.



Iowa Western golfer Cade McCallum of Grand Island snared the No. 2 seed at 3-under and Creighton sophomore-to-be Tucker Knaak of Plainview the No. 3 seed at 2-under. Brian Csipkes of Gretna and Ryan Nietfeldt of Omaha were the only others at par or better for the 36 holes.



First-round leader William Amundsen shot 77 in the second round and is the No. 13 seed.



Nietfeldt (2003), Travis Minzel of Lincoln (2004), Andy Sajevic of Omaha (2013) and father John Sajevic of Fremont (1989 and 1996) are the past champions among the top 32.

Tanner Owen, Parkville, Mo. 69-66-135



Cade McCallum, Grand Island 70-69-139



Tucker Knaak, Plainview 70-70-140



Brian Csipkes, Gretna 72-70-142



Ryan Nietfeldt, Omaha 70-72-142



Caleb Badura, Aurora 74-69-143



Dan Huston, Omaha 74-69-143



Noah Hofman, McCook 72-71-143



Matthew Unruh, Lincoln 72-72-144



Nate Vontz, Lincoln 71-73-144



Matthew Schaefer, Fordyce 69-76-145



William Amundsen, Omaha 68-77-145



Andy Sajevic, Omaha 73-72-145



David Easley, Lincoln 75-70-145



Josh Bartels, Lincoln 77-69-146



Mitchell Klooz, Imperial 76-70-146



Jay Moore, Lincoln 73-74-147



Alex Zillig, La Vista 71-76-147



Steve Buroker, Omaha 71-76-147



AJ Nolin, Omaha 72-76-148



Grant Jabenis, Omaha 72-76-148



John Sajevic, Fremont 72-76-148



Matt Petersen, Omaha 74-75-149



Daniel Pearson, Longmont, Colo. 74-75-149



Reed Malleck, York 76-73-149



Josh Peters, Omaha 77-73-150



Travis Minzel, Lincoln 73-77-150



Cole Grandfield, Omaha 73-77-150



Mark Wright, Omaha 78-73-151



Austin Murray, Kearney 76-75-151



Glenn Bills, Grand Island 75-76-151



Luke Gutschewski, Omaha 79-72-151



Michael Croker, Gretna 76-75-151



Failed to qualify



Jayson Brueggemann, Lincoln 74-78-152



Roger Sack, Lincoln 77-75-152



Jake Boor, Omaha 76-76-152



Kellen Rossman, Norfolk 76-77-153



Kevin Sullivan, Omaha 75-78-153



JT Hudson, Omaha 77-77-154



Mike Siwa, Omaha 77-77-154



Brandt Radloff, Blair 75-79-154



Chris Rasmussen, Omaha 78-76-154



Josh Wilson, Papillion 81-73-154

Tyler Ehresman, Omaha 75-80-155



Blake Giroux, Omaha 74-81-155



Danny Woodhead, Omaha 77-78-155



Jace Kratzenstein, Kearney 75-81-156



Matt Kingston, Springfield 76-80-156



Jason Kolbas, Lincoln 79-78-157



Tyler Welch, Seward 78-79-157



Hudson Schulz, Lincoln 81-76-157



Jacob Godwin, Omaha 80-77-157



Grant Johnson, Lincoln 77-81-158



John Lapour, Omaha 78-80-158



Ryan Knispel, Omaha 76-82-158



Vance Janssen, Blair 80-78-158



Christian Hall, Omaha 78-80-158



Kean Kontor, Fremont 75-83-158



Ethan Blair, Omaha 81-78-159



Scott Tridle, Lincoln 76-83-159



Johnathan Hudson, Omaha 77-82-159

Brett Hoffman, Kearney 76-84-160



Rourke Jensen, Lincoln 80-80-160



Alex Kubik, Aurora 82-79-161



Tylar Samek, David City 78-83-161



Andrew Morrissey, Omaha 88-74-162



Preston Carbaugh, Cambridge 85-77-162



Patrick Clare, Lincoln 81-81-162



Bryce Vuncannon, Columbus 76-87-163



Mason Hale, Atkinson 81-82-163



Jake Matzner, McCool Junction 80-83-163



Joe Torkelson, Omaha 80-83-163



Rex Soulliere, Omaha 81-82-163



Andrew Godwin, Omaha 89-75-164



Jacob Reckin, Bellevue 81-83-164



Sean Denning, Bellevue 82-82-164



Nash Holm, Omaha 80-85-165



Ryan Rogers, Omaha 84-81-165



Drew D'Ercole, Papillion 82-84-166



Jeffrey Paschal, Papillion 80-87-167



Evan Russo, Yutan 84-84-168



Keevan Statz, Lincoln 83-85-168



Jack Riggins, Lincoln 88-81-169



Lucas Leinen, Bellevue 82-88-170



Evan Macke, Omaha 82-88-170



Will Porter, Kearney 84-86-170



Grant Maser, Gering 87-84-171



Vincent Nigro, Omaha 87-84-171



Charlie Levy, Omaha 85-87-172



Jason Eggers, Omaha 84-88-172



Jack Song, Omaha 92-83-175



Jordan Hart, Omaha 84-92-176



Kaleb Fullerton, Omaha 87-90-177



Sam Morse, Columbus 88-90-178



Caleb Bukacek, Omaha 91-93-184



Jayden Neal, North Platte 94-90-184



Chad Geiger, Lincoln 82-DQ



First-round pairings - 7 a.m.: Huston (8) vs. Pearson (25). 7:10: Unruh (9) vs. Malleck (24). 7:20: Csipkes (4) vs. Wright (29). 7:30: Amundsen (13) vs. Jabenis (20). 7:40: Nietfeldt (5) vs. Peters (28). 7:50: Schaefer (12) vs. J. Sajevic (21). 8 a.m.: McCallum (2) vs. Murray (31). 8:10: Klooz (15) vs. Zillig (18). 8:20: Hofman (7) vs. Grandfield (26). 8:30: Vontz (10) vs. Petersen (23). 8:40: Knaak (3) vs. Bills (30). 8:50: A. Sajevic (14) vs. Buroker (19). 9 a.m.: Badura (6) vs. Minzel (27). 9:10: Easley (11) vs. Nolin (22). 9:20: Bartels (16) vs. Moore (17). 9:30: Owen (1) vs. Gutschewski or Croker (32). Second-round matches scheduled from 1:30 to 2:40 p.m.