Wetzler also expressed the significance of the team's sixth-place ranking.
"I think the No. 6 is a huge boost. This is the first time to my knowledge that Harvard placed anywhere in this tournament. This is a huge boost," Wetzler said.
"It was also different to be competing in front of judges from Iowa than judges from the East because they expect different things," she added. "Next year we'll know what it means to go to nationals."
This year the mock trial teams took on a wrongful death civil suit in which a grieving spouse sued the maker of an airplane's fuel gauge, alleging that the gauge's malfunction led to their spouse's case and death.
The opposing side argued that an investigation had turned up no conclusive evidence and the crash was due to bad weather and pilot error.