“I’m a little disappointed,” Meltzer said. “Obviously I made some mistakes in that match.”

Jantzen, on the other hand, earned his biggest victory of the year, cleanly defeating No. 5 Dustin Manotti, 9-2. Manotti is just the second ranked wrestler in team competition that Jantzen has faced this year. Early in the season Jantzen pinned Michigan’s No. 7 in the second period and will face Brown’s No. 17 David Dies next weekend.

“That match wasn’t even close,” Harvard coach Jay Weiss said. “He just did a real nice job against a guy who’s top-five in the country.”

Two of the Big Red’s other nationally ranked wrestlers—No. 14 Joe Mazzurco (165 lbs.) and No. 16 Tyler Baier (174 lbs.)—didn’t wrestle in the meet.

Mazzurco’s replacement, Dave Post, provided a not-so-friendly welcome back for Young, whom he pinned in the second period, the first of the two pins Young would experience this weekend.

Eddie Jones—who was too sick the following day to wrestle against Columbia—did beat the replacement, recording one of the three Harvard decisions on the night with a 5-2 win over Dan Miracola.

Co-captain Reggie Lee (197 lbs.) nearly had an upset win over No. 6 Matt Greenberg, but the Cornell wrestler came back in the third period to record two takedowns and a 4-3 victory.

The Big Red victory earned the team at least a share of the Ivy League title, which it clinched outright on Saturday with a 33-3 win over Brown. The accomplishment marks Cornell’s fifth Ancient Eight championship and third in four years.

The Crimson will wrap up its team competition when it travels to Brown (4-11, 1-6) and Boston University (14-2)—wrestling both this Saturday—before ending the season with the EIWA and NCAA tournaments.

—Staff writer Evan R. Johnson can be reached at erjohns@fas.harvard.edu.