It could be a very special year for Knoxville Wrestling as four state qualifiers are on this year’s squad three of which wore Knoxville black and gold as Marco Alejo, Luke Spaur, and Wayne Johnston return along with move-in Andon Trout, who wore Southeast Polk black and gold and was a class 3A qualifier last season for the Rams. While expectations are high for Knoxville, Coach Skylar Spaur tells KNIA/KRLS sports the first goal is to win all of their duals and win a few traditional tournaments they will be in, then think about the postseason goals, including making state duals for only the second time in program history.

Spaur: “The team’s goal they came up with is to make the State Duals for just the second time in team history. If I can get the upper weights to buy in and get them to have the same goals as everyone else, then we’ll be in a good place.”

Spaur says this is a deeper team than last year, and is still trying to figure out the upper weights before the first dual of the season which is at Nevada on December first.