Would I sign up for 1st Tenor or 2nd Tenor in a Touring Choir? If not then what part?

I am a singer who is focusing on operatic tenor material (leaning to spinto/dramatic tenor I guess within my primo passaggio at C#4 to my secondo passggio at F#4) and can crossover into popular music and Broadway music. Knowing that my teacher classified me as a tenor, I was working to audition for either 1st Tenor or 2nd Tenor in a University touring choir. The problem is that too much competition in both the tenor parts which meant if I signed up and auditioned, I never get placed. If I did get placed in as a 1st tenor, I would sing so many high B's, high C's, etc. If a 2nd tenor, I would most likely go up to the A4 above middle C. A baritone part is pretty much a choir part that most men were made to sing and I began as one only to find myself as a tenor. If I sang baritone when I'm supposed to be a tenor, I would force my singing voice to be extremely heavy in chest enough that in later years of singing I would have a depressed larynx that can make the high register either suffer or just strain which could lead the high notes to not be my friend. Any recommendations.