Thursday's finish of the top teams completing the nonstop endurance adventure called Primal Quest: Badlands 2009 apparently will stand. New Zealanders Team OrionHealth.com arrived first, followed by Salomon/Crested Butte, Merrill/Zanfel Adventure and Team Bones.

Officials delayed immediately naming the winner until calculating penalties and time credits to determine the official outcome.

Friday saw Team WEDALI (We Eat Dirt and Like It) take fifth and Team iMoat complete the nearly 600-mile competition in sixth. Both finished a week after the start of the race for the co-ed teams of four people who had to stay together and remain a unit in crossing the finish line at Memorial Park in Rapid City.

Team South Dakota on Friday afternoon was reported in 16th place, in the final off-road trekking phase before the mountain bike ride from the Badlands loop near Interior back to Rapid City.

Thirty-two teams started the quest, each paying $11,500 in entry fees for a crack at $150,000 in total prizes. The challenge was to cross Black Hills and Badlands backcountry by completing various segments of running, orienteering with a compass, mountain biking, rope climbing, cave venturing, kayaking and swimming.