The beauty of the net and a forum such as this is that we are all free to offer up our opinions regardless of who started the thread Chuckee.
Anyway Spaniel you've missed my point entirely.
Wolf hunting in Wisconsin is a luxury - out and out a luxury - for those who do not own livestock in wolf territory. The other thing is that wolves are NOT as numerous as say bears. Land owners whose livestock is under danger of predation from wolves are allowed to shoot wolves that are damaging their livestock. They do not need to enter into the wolf lottery or purchase the license. Frankly they're the only ones who need to shoot wolves. For everyone else its just a luxury. You can't even say you'd eat the wolf you shoot - not like shooting deer or even bear.
Speaking of bear in WI the cost of a bear license is currently $49 for a resident. Application to the lottery is $3. Currently the average wait for your name to be drawn for a bear license is anywhere from 6 to 9 years. I waited 4 years to be able to purchase a bear license - that was 5 years ago. I hunted bear once in WI and decided that I didn't like bear hunting enough to continue to apply to the lottery and wait for the license. In this state bear are more numerous than wolves and there are more bear licenses available for purchase to lottery winners. In fact last year there were a total of 9,015 tags/licenses sold. The population of black bear in WI is estimated to be somewhere between 26,000 and 40,000. Oh by the way people DO eat bear. I wouldn't expect many if any wolf hunters to eat wolf.
In contrast this year the population of Wisconsin's wolves is estimated to be around 800 and the hunting quota is only expected to be between 142 to 233 wolves. That doesn't leave many tags to be sold or filled.
Basically when there's more bears and more bear tags to be sold the cost is lower. The cost of wolf tags and lottery represents the low number of wolves in the state.
As I said before too, the cost of the lottery and tag in itself is probably one of the least expensive parts of the hunt. You'll spend plenty more just finding and acquiring a place to hunt, a place to stay while hunting, hunting supplies and fuel costs getting to and from your hunt. As someone said before in this thread, $110 is chump change, especially compared to the actual cost of the hunt itself.
EDIT: Huntinaz brings up a good point. The purpose of Wisconsin's wolf hunt is NOT to seriously cut back the wolf population. It is only to manage the population so as to limit the danger of wolf predation on livestock in Wi. With only 800 or so wolves in the state the hunt was never intended to greatly decrease the population. In that case the cost of the license is not horrendous at all.
Of course if you don't like paying the resident cost in WI for hunting wolves then you COULD go hunt wolves in Minnesota since they've got closer to 3000 wolves... of course that'll cost even more.