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Pat Sajak has seen a number of remarkable contestants in his three decades with Wheel of Fortune, but 35-year-old operations manager Matt DeSanto put on a performance during Friday’s episode that left the host speechless. DeSanto answered his way to a full sweep of all of the show’s puzzles, and even managed to solve a three-word puzzle when only one letter was on the board.

DeSanto started off the episode by correctly guessing “The Lone Ranger?” when only the last “E” was on the board, immediately winning $2,000 and causing both Sajak and the audience to gasp and stare at him in disbelief. While the feat was surely one for the Wheel record books, DeSanto merely cast it aside as simple deductive reasoning.

“I knew that the first word was either a proper name or the word ‘the’,” he told the Post on Monday. “If it’s a proper name, I’d have no shot. I said let’s go with ‘the’ — so I went with the letter ‘E’.”

Even though DeSanto’s wife was in the audience, Vanna White’s reveal that he had correctly solved the puzzle so quickly caused Sajak to joke that “I don’t want to cause trouble at home, but I still think there’s a connection with you and Vanna.”

DeSanto went on to solve every single puzzle up to the bonus round, acquiring two paid vacations and a record $91,892 in winnings. His winning streak came to an end during the bonus round, and even though he came close to correctly solving the puzzle by guessing “gavel” when the answer was “wooden gavel,” he wasted several seconds of his guessing time merely talking to the host of the show he’d watched ever since he was 5-years-old.

“When I play at home, I pretty much know if I got it quickly,” said DeSanto. “If I don’t have it right away, I know it will be tough. For this round, I could have picked some better letters. I knew I didn’t have it so I instead took the opportunity to say ‘hi’ to Pat.”

Sajak used the commercial break after the bonus round to congratulate DeSanto on his fantastic and record-breaking performance, causing the contestant to admit that the experience was still a dream come true even though he fell just short of a perfect game.

“We had a couple seconds before the camera went on,” said DeSanto. He said, “Hey nice job,” then we talked about the Flyers vs the Kings and the hockey game. I’m glad that I was able to have my wife in the audience and it was nice to see and experience the episode with family and friends. It was a thrilling, once in a lifetime experience that I will remember forever.”

NEW YORK, May 20, 2019 – New York Life announced today that Craig DeSanto and Matt Grove have been named Co-Chief Operating Officers for the company with operational oversight of all business areas, reporting to Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Ted Mathas.

Mr. DeSanto assumes oversight of New York Life InvestmentManagement¹ in addition to his current responsibilities for the Strategic Insurance Businesses and Retail Annuities. Mr. Grove, who oversees the company’s Retail Life, Service, Technology, Marketing and Business Planning and Strategy areas, assumes oversight of the Agency distribution system.

“These appointments enhance our organizational structure and alignment and our ability to execute against our business strategies while consistently delivering on our long-term commitments to the millions of families and businesses who rely on us,” said Mr. Mathas. “These moves unite our foundational and strategic businesses, respectively, under strong and talented leaders with proven track records of delivering results on behalf of our customers.”

In addition, Mark Madgett, head of Agency, has been promoted to Executive Vice President, reporting to Mr. Grove. As a New York Life veteran with more than three decades of service to the company, Mr. Madgett has risen through the sales and management ranks and demonstrated outstanding leadership in managing the sales and distribution strategy for the company.

ABOUT NEW YORK LIFE

New York Life Insurance Company (www.newyorklife.com), a Fortune 100 company founded in 1845, is the largest mutual life insurance company in the United States* and one of the largest life insurers in the world. Headquartered in New York City, New York Life’s family of companies offers life insurance, retirement income, investments and long-term care insurance. New York Life has the highest financial strength ratings currently awarded to any U.S. life insurer from all four of the major credit rating agencies**.

*Based on revenue as reported by “Fortune 500 ranked within Industries, Insurance: Life, Health (Mutual),” Fortune magazine, 6/1/18. For methodology, please see http://fortune.com/fortune500/

**Individual independent rating agency commentary as of 7/30/2018: A.M. Best (A++), Fitch (AAA), Moody’s Investors Service (Aaa), Standard & Poor’s (AA+)

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