There are not many home events for the Knoxville Wrestling Squad this season. The schedule was full of home events last season, but when the new ledger came out originally, the Panthers had just two home meets. The Knoxville Invitational on December 10th and a quad on December 15th. Now there are three events as Ankeny will come in on January 19th for a dual. Coach Skylar Spaur says it is two fold, he wants to wrestle the best teams he can to get his guys ready for the districts, and to give his JV guys chances to get some mat time…

Spaur: “I really don’t like wasting JV kids time and wrestling a six person school and they just stand around. So our AD got Ankeny to come down and he got some more JV tournaments, because after this year, we’re going to lose 4-5 guys so those JV guys are going to have to step up.”

The Panthers get the season underway on December first at Nevada, the first home meet is the Knoxville Invitational, which is scheduled to bring in Fairfield, Nevada, North Polk, and Southeast Polk JV.