Bethlehem Catholic hasn't had much to worry about heading into district duals over the past few seasons.

The Hawks have won four straight 2A titles with relative ease, but as Becahi enters this week's tournament in the 3A tournament, the mood is a bit different.

Even though the Hawks are still considered heavy favorites to walk away with their first 3A crown Saturday night when wrestling wraps up at Freedom, head coach Jeff Karam knows there are plenty of obstacles his team needs to maneuver around in order to claim a new piece of hardware.

"You know the past couple years, we could afford to kind of look ahead and try and figure out who we would wrestle in the finals," said Karam about the District 11 2A tournament, "but this year we're going to have a tough opponent right off the bat. And when you look at the history of this tournament, teams like Parkland, Easton and Nazareth always turn it up this time of the year. Nobody is going to roll over for us."

After essentially dealing with a forfeit against Palisades in last year's opening round, Becahi will likely take on either Nazareth or Emmaus Thursday night. The Hawks beat Nazareth 44-10 on Jan. 14, but that doesn't mean the same thing will happen if they meet again.

If things work out as planned through the tournament, Becahi could see Parkland in the semifinals, another team they pummeled 51-3 this month and a potential finals bout against undefeated Freedom.

All of that, of course, is based on projections, but Karam knows that teams will adjust their strategies if they face them a second time.

"We won the coin flip when we wrestled Nazareth and it made a difference," he said. "We won a lot of tight bouts, just like we did against Parkland. Teams are going to make adjustments, just as we are going to, if we see someone a second time. "Then you still have a team like Freedom out there and the amazing job Brandon Hall is doing with them. It's going to be tough."

To make matters worse, the snow that blanketed the Valley early this week held everyone out of their rooms on Monday and Tuesday.

Monitoring wrestlers weight is something that Karam worries about this time of the year. Throw in the fact that Becahi wrestles Liberty tonight and it spells an early week of obstacles before duals.

"It's always an emotional and tough match when I face my brother," Karam said. "I don't like that we're wrestling Liberty the night before duals, but there's a lot of teams that are wrestling Wednesday too. You just have to deal with the circumstances."