$3000? How's this look:
http://www.novemberbicycles.com/wheelhouse-bike/
FWIW, I looked at the SRAM 11-32 cassette, but the 13-15-17-19-22 gearing right smack in the middle turned me off. At least the 12-32 drops a 14 and 16 in the middle, but at the cost of the final jump being 24-32.