Wordpress Sticky Posts AFTER first post - php

Question

I've been trying to make a single sticky post display on the second (or third etc) position instead of the default which is the first.
I have been playing with the loop for hours but I always run into problems.
Here is what I have done so far:
<!-- Wordpress Main Loop Start -->
<?php query_posts(array("post__not_in" =>get_option("sticky_posts"))); ?>
<?php if ( have_posts() ) : $loop_count = 0; while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); $loop_count++; ?>
<div <?php post_class(); ?>>
<h2><?php the_title(); ?></h2>
<div class="byline postinfo">by <?php the_author_posts_link(); ?></div>
<div class="postdate postinfo"><?php the_time('l F d, Y'); ?></div>
<div class="commentscounter postinfo"><?php comments_number('0', '1', '%'); ?></div>
<?php
if ($loop_count == 2) :
$sticky = get_option( 'sticky_posts' );
query_posts( 'p=' . $sticky[0] );
wp_reset_query();
else:
the_excerpt('Read More...');
endif;
?>
</div>
<?php endwhile; else: ?>
<p><?php _e('No posts were found. Sorry!'); ?></p>
<?php endif; ?>
<div class="navi">
<div class="right">
<?php previous_posts_link('Previous'); ?> / <?php next_posts_link('Next'); ?>
</div>
</div>
<!-- Wordpress Main Loop End -->
What I have done is this:
I used query_posts() to filter out all sticky posts from the loop.
Used the loop to get the posts and a counter which increments everytime a post is fetched.
On the div which displays the fetched post, I added an if statement which checks if the counter is a specific number and if it is, it rewrites the query_posts and gets the sticky one. If not, it displays the fetched post.
I then reset the query and the loop continues as it should (almost).
The problem is, after the count reaches the value I want, the loop instead of continuing from the last post, it start from the beginning.
If I remove the wp_reset_query() function, the loop just stops when the sticky post is found.
If I try to rewrite the query to include all posts, I get infinite looping because I'm already inside the loop.
I don't want to break the loop in two or three so if anyone can help fix this using one loop, that would be great!