Anthony Little is yet to stitch up his place on the Commonwealth Games team, but at least the Australian selectors want him to fit into the green and gold.

The West Australian amateur boxer is fighting for a spot in the team for next month's games after outclassing the best lightweights in the nation at last August's Commonwealth Games selection trials in Melbourne.

Boxing Australia chairman Ted Tanner contacted Little's trainer, Geoff Peterson, requesting Little's measurements for an Australian uniform.

BA also submitted Little's name to the Australian Commonwealth Games Association for inclusion, together with NSW fighter Leonardo Zappavigna, as the 60kg representative at the Games.

However, Little's prospects of representing Australia at next month's Games in Melbourne hinge on him winning another appeal to the Court of Arbitration in Sport, which he hopes will be held in Melbourne later this week.

BA last week named Zappavigna in the team, after ruling Little ineligible because he had tested positive to marijuana at the selection trials.

With a broken hand, Little had comfortably outpointed Zappavigna in the 60kg final at the trials.

Little appealed to the Court of Arbitration in Sport, which on January 18 ruled that he had passively ingested marijuana smoke, and that marijuana was not a performance-enhancing substance.

Tanner said the final selection was now out of BA's hands.

CAS would send its ruling to the ACGA, which would then decide who would be Australia's lightweight representative - Little, 25, or Zappavigna, 18.

"Boxing Australia decided not to change its criteria, which means that anyone who tested positive at the trials was ineligible for selection," Tanner said.

"We received advice that by not selecting Zappavigna in the team would be a legal liability to Boxing Australia."

But BA did not count on the fighting spirit of Little and Peterson, and strong support from the Aboriginal Legal Service.

WA Institute of Sport has pledged its full support to Little being included in the team.

"Obviously there is an anomaly in Boxing Australia's selection procedure which has been exposed by Anthony's situation," WAIS director Steve Lawrence said.

"It is in the best interests of everybody that the situation be resolved as quickly as possible."

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