In just over a month new Blues coach Michael Maguire will pick his side for State of Origin I — and there’s a big question mark over what he’ll do at five-eighth.

Panthers superstar Nathan Cleary is a lock for halfback, but who partners him is very much a mystery.

That’s why NRL 360 host Braith Anasta believes the No.6 decision is a “tough call, probably (Madges’) biggest.”

Cody Walker is the incumbent but the Rabbitohs veteran has had a disappointing start to the season.

There’s three-time premiership-winner Jarome Luai, who has been there and done it before.

Or there’s Eels playmaker Mitchell Moses, who filled in at halfback when Cleary was injured last year, but said during pre-season that he’d be happy to play five-eighth. However, Moses isn’t due to return from a foot injury until a week before the team is picked.

However, NRL 360 co-host Paul Kent suggested Maguire should try his luck with new Rabbitohs recruit Jack Wighton, who did retire from representative football but left the door open in February when asked about backflipping on that decision.

“I’d be going to Jack Wighton and asking him… I think it’s worth the question,” Kent said.

“Wighton is one of the few Souths players that you can walk away and be impressed with how he’s played.”

News Corp journalist Dave Riccio believes Wighton is “definitely open” to returning to the Origin arena but said “I still want to hear it from him.”

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“I’d still love for Jack Wighton to come out and say ‘pick me Madge, I’m ready to play Origin for you.’ I haven’t heard that. Madge has (spoken to Wighton), but Jack put it on the backburner (to focus on the Rabbitohs),” he revealed.

Kent added: “If you’re Michael Maguire and you’re determined that he’s your guy, you say to him ‘Jack I’ll pick you but you’ve got to come out and declare you want to play and I’ll pick you when you do’.”

But Read believes it’s a poor look for New South Wales to go knocking on the door of a player that stepped away from rep footy.

“How desperate is that though, to go to a bloke that’s retired. Surely there’s options out there before you go to a guy that’s retired. It’s got a little bit of desperation about it,” he said on NRL 360.