During his senior year, Wever helped lead the Lowell Cardinals to the city championship game, and he graduated in 1976.

[2] As a result, he attended the University of California, Santa Barbara on an academic scholarship, and walked on to the school's baseball team.

He pitched in ten games for the team, finishing the season with a 6–3 record, a 1.77 earned run average (ERA), and 70 strikeouts.

He had a 7–3 record and a 2.00 ERA in 12 games before being promoted to the Nashville Sounds of the Southern League, the Yankees' AA affiliate.

Wilhelm felt he had the ability but not the confidence to pitch in the majors, and spent his time in Nashville working on that aspect of Wever's game.

[2] The following season, Weber was almost unanimously named to the Southern League All-Star team, thanks to 11 wins and 116 strikeouts through the end of June.

Partway through the first inning, he felt a twinge in his shoulder; not wanting to leave his first game early, he pitched through it and allowed five runs in the first.

[2] After retiring from baseball, Wever returned to school, and earned a bachelor's degree in English literature from the University of California, Berkeley.

[8] He married Melinda in 1988, and three years later opened up the Horseshoe Tavern, a bar in San Francisco's Marina District, which he continues to run.

He was named varsity baseball coach at Redwood High School in Larkspur, California in 2008, after having volunteered for the freshman team the year before.