Soldering Hell

It's funny you say that. I have tried to use wick to remove the extra solder, but I can't get it suck up into the wick. The bridges are on the board crossing the pads.

I don't do a lot of really fine-pitch smt myself. But someone else mentioned that you
might try taking some flux or solder and flow it onto the wick first. It does tend to be
difficult to get the heat transferred enough to get the surface-tension working through
a dry wick, even on non-smt parts.