Wheels or spacers?

Hello everyone this is my 1st post. I have a 2005 700 sportsman and I found a great deal on some 26X9X12 take offs. I know they won’t fit without spacers but I read somewhere that they will work on some machines if you mount them on itp delta steel rims with a 4+3 offset. I would rather do that if they work cause my rims are pretty banged up but I don’t understand how they could work because the stock rims measure 4+2 offset. I think that the 4 means they are the same distance away on the inboard side. Has anyone here ran into this and what did you do? Thanks