Throttle control using mousewheel, is there a way?

[Feathered_IV]

For the last ten years I've always mapped my throttle controls to the mousewheel. It's handy and I get a much more precise range of movement than the little lever next to a joystick can provide. Clod seems to be the only sim I've encountered during this time which does not appear to support the mousewheel. Before I go out and spend a hundred bucks on a new mouse, I thought I'd better check in and see, has anyone else got it working?