Title IX an Issue at State Wrestling?

Joel Northrup was one of the top wrestlers at this years the Iowa High School State Wrestling meet this year until he defaulted and lost to an opponent. Why would a top ranked wrestler do such a thing when he is in the mix to win it all? Well his opponent he was supposed to face was a woman. Cassy Hekelman wrestled her way up to face Joel and deserved the right to wrestle him. Joel then stated why he defaulted and didnt wrestle Cassy, and he blamed it on religion, the violence and gender roles of women. Joel's father is a priest and he is very religious and made a clear statement that he didnt think that girls deserved to be thrown around and wrestled with. I think that this goes against everything that Title IX is trying to prove. That no person on the basis of sex should be discriminated against or denied access to an activity that is recieving Federal funds. You can clearly see that Joel is discriminating against wrestling a women based on the mere fact that she is one and has strong religious beliefs about the woman gender roles. An interesting fact is that Joel or anyone never mentions Title IX in any of their observations of the State Wrestling controversies when a clear example of what it is trying to stand for is being put into play. This act of discrimination also made be think about what we talked about in class with what Elenor Matheny says about women and what is appropriate and what is not. Elenor explains that it is not appropriate for any woman to engage in any activity that involves the overcoming of an opponent using bodily force. So to go along with Joel's statement with gender roles, Elenor does not think that women should be using bodily force to overcome an opponent, a good example would be wrestling. The thing that I find funny is that a lot of reporters and people covering the event never really go over to Cassy and get her take on what happened that day and how she felt about getting discriminated against just for being a women. I mean she was just as involved in the controversy as much as Joel was and all we are hearing about in the blogs and papers is what Joel thought and why he didn't wrestle. In my opinion, I take what Joel did that day as an act of fear and selfishness. I mean she earned her way to that match and she deserved every bit to go against a top ranked wrestler and prove she deserved to be there and instead she was shot down and it almost seemed like she didnt earn a thing because she won by default. I think Joel took a lot of pride out of her journey at the meet and she deserved the match just as equally as any man there.