I am having trouble while on the quest "Alduin's Wall."

Before I ever got this far on the quest line I explored Karthspire, found the puzzles, solved them and got to the chest in front of the Sky Haven Temple entrance. Not knowing what to do with it I left. Almost 50 hours of game play later, I'm instructed to go back. After some tedious effort to get Esbern to appear, I open the door to Sky haven Temple.

The NPC's tell me to enter first and I do so. I walk up to the wall where I'm told to go and nothing happens. I leave the temple and Esbern and Delphine have reset back to right before the first pillar puzzle in Karthspire!

I've been trying to get them to move and reset but have been unsuccessful. I've reloaded save files, fast traveled to different locations, used every spell and shout I have to try and move them myself, nothing works!

I'm very frustrated because I have so much time invested, I would just like to know if there is anything I can do? Or if there will be a patch that will solve this problem.

Well hopefully the next patch will solve it for you. I have heard this one before but I don't believe a solution was ever found, you may want to look at the wiki page for this quest.

This and many other similar glitches are the exact reason I don't go out and explore first thing. Never know when picking up the wrong object or killing a certain enemy will glitch a quest many hours later.

I'm really mad at Bethesda for this joke too..