"Three out of Five Ain't Bad."

That's the theme song for the Harvard wrestling team this weekend. After soundly beating University of Pennsylvania, Albany, and Lycoming and losing close matches to James Madison and Princeton, the wrestlers had reason to sing.

"We are the Champions."

The Crimson took down Penn, 25-9, and eluded Albany State, 21-19, at a tri-meet in Philadelphia on Friday.

"The whole team wrestled tough against Penn," 158-lb. Tim Kierstead said. "Brett Janis and Sam Cole wrestled well and Scott Beck gave his best match of the year."

"We had pretty good games against both of them," Coach Jim Peckham said. "Against Albany State we used three back-up wrestlers and four starting freshmen. You wouldn't see the football team use four freshmen starters if hell froze over."

"On the Road Again."

Saturday, the wrestling team hopped over to Princeton for another meet, but this time only went one-for-three. Princeton, the Crimson's main rival, barely nipped Harvard, 19-18.

Ignoring cries of sour grapes, Peckham blamed the officiating for the loss to the Tigers.

"You won't usually hear me complaining about officiating, but in this case, the official determined the outcome of Tim Kierstead's bout, and the outcome of the entire match," Peckham said.

Peckham plans to file a complaint against the official with the ECAC. To complete a take-down, one wrestler must gain control over the other wrestler. According to Peckham, the official gave the Princeton wrestler a take-down against Kierstead when he did not have control.

"[The decision] gave that kid riding time and the take-down," Peckham added. "It was a three-point decision that would have changed the complexion of the whole match."

"I didn't agree with the call too much," Kierstead admitted, "but a referee's call doesn't lose a match for you, and I should have been able to come back from something like that."

Without the call, Kierstead could have tied the match, giving Harvard two points and subtracting one point from Princeton's tally.

"Bad"