THS will look to defend its crown come February at the Class 4A championships, but the road there starts Wednesday with a dual against Bonner Springs.

The THS girls squad also will bet at home Wednesday against Bonner Springs.

Matches are set to start at 5 p.m. Thursday at the THS gymnasium.

Boys wrestling will turn around and compete in the team’s first tournament of the season Saturday at the Gardner-Edgerton Invitational.

The multi-state tournament starts at 9 a.m. Saturday at GEHS. Teams slated to be there are Allen (Texas), Broken Arrow (Okla.), Cascia Hall Preparatory (Okla.), Dodge City, Goddard, Manhattan, Mill Valley, Olathe North, St. Thomas Aquinas, Salina Central, Southeast Polk (Iowa), St. James Academy and Gardner-Edgerton.

Tonganoxie will be home two more times before the new year: Dec. 14 with a double dual against Ottawa and Santa Fe Trail and Dec. 17 with the Randy Starcher Memorial Invitational. Teams slated to compete at the Randy Startcher tourney alongside THS are Clay Center, East, Eudora, Independence, Lansing, Louisburg, Savannah (Mo.), Highland Park, Frontenac and West Plains (Mo.).

The THS girls wrestling team is at home Thursday with the dual against Bonner Springs and then goes on the road for Saturday tournament at Spring Hill, a dual Dec. 8 at Pittsburg, a tourney Dec. 9 at Santa Fe Trail and a home dual, alongside the boys team, Dec. 14 against Ottawa and Santa Fe Trail. On Dec. 17, the girls head to a big tournament at Basehor-Linwood as they close out the 2022 portion of the schedule.

Teams at the Spring Hill tourney alongside SHHS and Tonganoxie are Basehor-Linwood, Blue Valley, Blue Valley North, Blue Valley Southwest, Blue Valley West, Central Heights, Gardner-Edgerton, Holton, Olathe Northwest, Ottawa, Paola, Shawnee Mission Northwest, Shawnee Mission South and Shawnee Mission West. That meet starts at 10 a.m. Saturday.

The SFT tourney will have Rossville, Osage City, Wellsville, Shawnee Heights, Perry-Lecompton, West Franklin, Silver Lake, Burlingame, Anderson County, Iola, Wamego, Ottawa, Sabetha, Holton and Osawatomie alongside THS and Santa Fe Trail. That meet gets started at 10 a.m. Dec. 9.

The final meet in 2022 will be a big one for the THS girls team.

Other teams at the BLHS invite are Baldwin, Blue Valley Southwest, Bonner Springs, Chanute, Dodge City, Emporia, Fort Scott, Gardner-Edgerton, Holton, JC Harmon, Lansing, Lawrence High, Leavenworth, Liberal, Olathe East, Olathe North, Olathe Northwest, Olathe South, Olathe West, Pittsburg, Prairie View, Sabetha, Seaman, Shawnee Heights, Shawnee Mission Northwest, Shawnee Mission South, Shawnee Mission West, Spring Hill, Turner and Washburn Rural.

Tonganoxie boys and girls basketball teams open the season Dec. 2 at home against Louisburg and then are on the road Dec. 6 at Atchison. The Chieftains are back home Dec. 9 against Wamego and then on the road Dec. 15 at Eudora. Both teams finish out the 2022 portion of the schedule Dec. 20 at Baldwin.

Games Friday in the home opener for THS varsity teams will start about 6 p.m. for the girls and 7:30 p.m. for the boys.

The THS boys went 13-9 last year and finished as a Class 4A substate runner-up. Tonganoxie will look to post a fourth straight winning season under coach Phil Jones.

The THS girls are back in 2022-23 after going 6-15 in a year that saw the team nearly come through in a handful of games in which they lost by a few points.