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Bernie Sanders' deputy campaign manager Rich Pelletier, left, and Hillary Clinton director of state campaigns and political engagement Marlon Marshall attend a meeting at the Wyoming Democratic state party convention in Cheyenne, Wyo., on Saturday. | AP Photo Wyoming Democrats dodge convention rancor

Wyoming's Democratic Convention on Saturday didn't erupt into chaos. There was no chair-throwing, and there were no procedural disruptions.

But supporters of Sen. Bernie Sanders did come away with a small victory. The Wyoming Democratic Party opted to forward a petition to the Democratic National Committee proposing a change to the state's delegate allocation so Sanders would get five district-level delegates and Hillary Clinton would get three. That would represent a shift of one delegate to Sanders.

The petition, by Wyoming land surveyor Richard Kusaba, is meant to make the delegate allocation better reflect the outcome of the caucuses. Sanders won the state's caucuses with 57 percent of the vote, while Clinton got 43 percent.

"I have studied the Delegate Selection Plan and found that this is wrong," Kusaba wrote in his petition.

The decision to forward Kusaba's petition to the national committee is a small olive branch to Sanders supporters who have railed against a delegate allocation system they see as rigged in Clinton's favor. That frustration fueled problems recently at Nevada's Democratic Convention, resulting in multiple procedural disruptions and threats to Nevada Democratic Party leaders.

National Democrats feared a repeat of Nevada in Wyoming and took steps to prevent another raucous convention. Marlon Marshall, the Clinton campaign director for state campaigns, and Sanders deputy campaign manager Rich Pelletier were dispatched by their respective campaigns to ensure the Wyoming convention remained orderly. DNC vice chairman Ray Buckley also attended to represent the national committee.

"All's well in Wyoming," Buckley wrote in the Facebook caption of a photo of the convention.