I think it is almost impossible. Especially for the hotter/bigger tags. Perhaps hot is possible for some people that got upvoted directly after posting.

Did you also check some of the most popular Steemonians?
Like @haejin, @exyle and @famunger? You should think they make it some time to trending? However they probably don't because their posts gain very stable amount of upvotes. And what you need is 1 post with very high reward.