Taylor Haugh (17), of King's High School, and Rory van Vugt (18), of South Otago High School, made the cut after impressing at a training camp in Auckland last month.
The year 13 pupils will attend another training camp in January or February, before a final squad is named to play a series against Australia in Auckland in April.
Haugh and van Vugt have been playing touch together for years, and both have represented New Zealand at under-17 and under-19 levels. Haugh has also played rugby for his school's first XV. He plays either first five-eighth or fullback, and plans to join the University club next year when he studies physical education at the University of Otago.
''I can make a career out of rugby, so that's where I will put a lot of effort into,'' he said.
''But touch, I just absolutely love it. It's my favourite sport at the moment.''
They also finished in the top 10 at the national secondary schools championships the past two years.
Haugh has also recently started playing sevens, and is in his second year coaching the Otago under-17 touch team.
Van Vugt (18) has played touch since he was 9 and first represented the province in the under-11 age group.
Like Haugh, he also plays rugby, and the fullback scored a team-high 32 tries for South Otago High School's first XV this past winter.
He will move from Balclutha to Dunedin next year to do a pre-trade carpentry course at Otago Polytechnic, but does not yet know which club he will join.
Van Vugt plans to play touch in both Dunedin and Balclutha next year.
Four other Otago players made Touch Blacks squads and have a chance to play Australia in April.
Thomas Johnson, who made the men's team as a Kaikorai Valley College pupil last year, made the mixed squad, while Dayna Turnbull, Phoebe Steele and Katie Brock made the women's squad.
Haugh's brother Mackenzie, who now represents Tasman, also made the mixed team.
