“Fox had to get a major, and he got a major,” Harvard coach Jay Weiss said.

Gajdzik clinched the winning bout necessary to secure a Crimson dual-meet victory after beating Manna, 2-0, to bring the final score to 16-15.

“Obviously we want ten wrestlers wrestling great at this point of the year, and we’re not there yet, but we’re getting close,” Weiss said. “I thought people wrestled hard [but] we still have a lot of work to do and a short time to do it, but obviously it’s good to come away with a win…. It’s just getting guys mentally ready, keeping them fresh, getting them rested up, and hopefully wrestling their best in two weeks.”

With the regular season over, Harvard will now prepare to compete in the 2013 EIWA Championships on the weekend of March 8th.

“I think it was a really good season for the team,” Peppelman said. “We are just focusing on fine-tuning, making sure we’re healthy, and we’re ready to go. We’ve done a lot of hard work, so now we’re just focusing on the problems we can fix and try to make a run at the national tournament.”

—Staff writer Kelley Guinn McArtor can be reached at kelleyguinnmcartor@college.harvard.edu. Follow her on Twitter at @KGMCrimson.