Brandon Scholz, a longtime Wisconsin Republican operative who served as a delegate at the 1996 national convention, said he hopes the party figures out a way to avoid a fight in Cleveland. Scholz said he thinks if Trump enters the convention with close to the required 1,237 delegates, he will emerge as the nominee.

“I don’t think that there’s great value for the Republican Party to have a nasty, nasty shoot ‘em up Wild West convention,” Scholz said. “Bloody noses on the convention floor aren’t going to do anybody any good.”

Scholz hasn’t endorsed anyone this year, but there is a strong anti-Trump contingent among some Republican power brokers in Wisconsin, including Assembly Majority Leader Jim Steineke. Others with influence in the party, including Gov. Scott Walker and Sen. Ron Johnson, have tried to stay out of the fray for now, saying they will support whoever is the nominee.

Under Wisconsin state party rules, the delegates must support their candidate unless that person releases them. They can also support someone else if their candidate does not receive at least one-third of the total votes cast in any vote for the nomination.