Sophomore A.J. Jaffe epitomized this sentiment. With time waning in his bout against redshirt junior Isaiah Locsin, Jaffe pinned his opponent with one second remaining, giving the Crimson six team points. The fall gave Jaffe his fourth on the season and eighth of his career.

Sophomore Hunter Ladnier followed Jaffe with a dominating 17-0 fall of his own against Cardinal redshirt freshman Jake Barry, Ladnier’s second technical fall of the season.

Both Goldman and Dean won decisions of their own, Goldman 10-3 against Stanford freshman Anthony Le, and Dean 10-5 against freshman Judah Duhm. Although the Cardinals won the 197 and 285 duels, Harvard ultimately won by fourth criteria tie-break.

“I think we know that we have a pretty special and a special group of guys,” Goldman said. “These aren’t EIWA matches, so we start wrestling teams in our conference next weekend, and it’ll be really huge to take this momentum and avenge a couple of EIWA matches from last year ... and then hopefully garner postseason accolades for some individuals.”

Dean looks to continue the aggressive playstyle of his team moving forward into pivotal matchups.

“I think we’re looking to build off this style of extending our lead and constantly wrestling aggressively as we go into next week against Bucknell and F & M, both very winnable matches,” Dean said. “After that, it’s Cornell week, which is a huge week for us.”

—Staff writer Leon K. Yang can be reached at leon.yang@thecrimson.com.