The wholesaler made a deal happen. 

Buying an out of state rental property from a realtor, wholesaler or off facebook or zillow etc as opposed to from an operation or turnkey provider who has an active, substancial, and effective boots on the ground team or teams to support you after you close on the sale. 

I'd also spend some money in direct marketing to get more sellers, and either wholesale those deals or buy them myself.

I'm a wholesaler and flipper focused in SE Idaho.

If the latter you may just be an independent “bird dog” for a wholesaler competing with everyone else. 

@Rashid GhafoorPacific Wholesale Mortgage (www.PacWM.Com) will hire newbies. 

The fee you pay is actually to get access to all the training and to be able to submit to the Deal Genie for either Wholesale, or Fix and Flip Riches.

My JV partner, Jason Bridges (https://www.biggerpockets.com/users/michealb14) and I, rehab, flip, wholesale and wholetail in and around Belleville.So far as meetups and networking, Rich Groves (post above) is the man! 

-At the end of the day, if it were me and I was a wholesaler (as opposed to a broker/agent) in this scenario, I would say that "as a courtesy", you can try to help and see if you can sell it to someone else off market, but you should not be expected to do a due diligence for the buyer, that's their responsibility, and you said from the beginning that you are not knowledgeable on land. 

I haven't worked with wholesalers.