Wheeler broke the all-time hits record and received an athletic scholarship to Northwestern College in Orange City, Iowa.

Wheeler led the Great Plains Athletic Conference (GPAC) in RBI (66) in 2014 and hits (76) in 2015.

[5][6] He defeated independent candidate Jeff VanDerWerff in the general election, who had lost the Republican primary earlier that year.

[8] In the 2020 general election, Wheeler defeated Democratic Party candidate Björn Johnson.

[9][10] In a 2022 primary, Wheeler defeated Dordt University student Kendal Zylstra, winning 52% of the vote.