Based on the final poll of the coaches, Penn is favored by a very narrow  margin over Lehigh, with Cornell set to provide an upset should both of the  leaders stumble along the way.    At stake in addition to the team title are ten individual championships and 33 bids to the NCAA Championships at Albany on March 21-23. All finalists receive an automatic bid, with thirteen others chosen from among wrestlers placing third through fifth.    There will be seven defending or former EIWA champions, as well as six runners-up and 16 returning NCAA Qualifiers in the competition.    Penn has just two wrestlers ranked #1 coming into the tournament, but four more ranked #2, and is the only team with all ten wrestlers ranked in  the Top 6.    Penn coach Roger Reina said that the Penn team progressed nicely throughout the season. "Improvement has been demonstrated by guys moving up in the rankings recently" he said, "putting us in a better position to come out on top." But he also noted that "winning the tournament will require a 10-man performance."    Lehigh has three top ranked wrestlers, but only two ranked second, and one wrestler whose physical status was in doubt a  week before the tournament was to begin.    Lehigh coach Greg Strobel said that Lehigh had a good season in spite of not putting all starters on the mat due to injuries most of the season. "We're pleased to be hosting," he said, "and if we do the right things we could come out on top."    A well-balanced Cornell team has only two wrestlers ranked in the top two, but they have a ranked wrestler at every weight except heavyweight. They will be looking to replicate what Harvard did last year, by wrestling a near-perfect tournament while the favorites suffer upsets in the quarterfinals and semifinals.    "We're capable and will be right there," said Cornell coach Rob Koll. "Each year one team turns it up a notch. Hopefully this year it will be us" and noted that the semifinals will be extremely important.    Once again this year, bonus points could play an important roll in a  close team race. A wrestler scores two bonus points for his team for everypin, 1.5 points for every technical fall, and a point for every major decision. Low seeded wrestlers who pull off early upsets, in effect "stealing" the higher seed, could also have a big impact on the team race.    In dual meet action, Penn beat Lehigh 21-12 on the last Sunday in February, while earlier the Quakers clobbered Cornell 21-9. Cornell and Lehigh didn't meet this season.    Here's a thumbnail sketch by weight class.    125_Getting the top seed will be important, because the reward is not having to face dangerous freshman Travis Lee of Cornell in the semifinals. Returning finalist Mario Stuart, Lehigh beat defending champion Mason Lenhard, Penn 9-6 in the dual, and is a returning All-American. But Lenhard is the defending champion, and beat Stuart twice last year, including the EIWA finals. Lee's only EIWA loss was 11-8 to Lenhard, and he has 21 wins  overall as a true freshman. It appears likely that Army¿ÇÖs Matt Magennis, who missed a month with an injury, and Navy freshman Sam Gray will battle in the quarterfinals for the right to face Lee.    133_About the only thing certain in this wide open weight class is that Harvard's Kevin El-Hayek, who has lost only to Lehigh¿ÇÖs Dan Hayman amongst the contenders, will grab the top seed. After that, the coaches would be well advised to use a random number generator to seed the next five slots, as it seems that everyone has beaten everyone else. Even if the seeding committee can bring some logic to play, there are about eight or nine wrestlers who could either advance to the finals or not place at all.    Taking them in the order they are currently ranked after El-Hayek, Penn's Jeff Eveleth has beaten Popovitch, Alvarez and Hyman, while losing to El-Hayek, Apgar and unranked John Knorring of Princeton. Rob Apgar of Brown has beaten Eveleth and Hyman and split with Alvarez, while losing to Knorring, Popovitch and El-Hayek. Dan Hyman of Lehigh has beaten El-Hayek and Knorring while losing to Apgar and Eveleth. Cornell's Alejandro Alvarez, fourth at 125 a year ago, has beaten Knorring and Popovitch, split with Apgar, and lost to Eveleth and El-Hayek. Steve Popovitch of Columbia, who can be explosive, has beaten Apgar and lost to most of the others. Knorring has beaten both Apgar and Eveleth, but comes in with a record of 4-10, which will hurt him at seeding. And waiting in the wings are freshmen Andrew Tilles of Rutgers, who owns a pin over Knorring, and  Rich Gebauer of F&M, who has Looked good at times this season without facing most of the ranked men. It's likely the coaches will not select an NCAA wild card qualifier at this weight.    141_Not only is Mark Conley of Navy the defending champion and returning All-American, but he is currently ranked #1 in the nation in most polls. Probably the only man that has a chance of pulling off an upset is freshman phenom Phillip Simpson of Army, who has 7-4 and 5-0 losses to Conley. Fans watching Simpson for the first time will like what they see. He is aggressive, especially on top, and is second in the conference only to Bronson Lingamfelter in pins, with 15. The trio of Clint Frease, Brown, Byron Warner, Cornell and returning finalist (at 133) Juan Venturi, Princeton will battle for the right to reach the semifinals against the Academy entries.    149_Returning finalist Jesse Jantzen of Harvard and Joe Henson of Penn will almost certainly be the finalists, with Jantzen winning 1-0 in the dual. Most observers feel the rematch will see a lot more points scored. Lehigh freshman Mike Pirozzola is still nursing sore ribs, and could be replaced by Troy Minarovic. If that happens, any two of the trio of Greg Austin, Rutgers, Jason Mercado, Brown, and Chris Pirch of Cornell could reach the semis. Things could get even more interesting if Tom Waldron, recovering from a series of injuries at Midlands and thereafter, beats out Pirch in a wrestleoff.    157_Penn's Yoshi Nakamura, two-time returning champion and currently ranked #2 in the nation, comes as close as anyone to having a lock on the title. He owns a 10-4 win over the second ranked man, senior Warren Stout of Lehigh, and has lost only once all year. Stout will be challenged in the semis by Cornell's Gabe Webster.    165_Lehigh's returning All-American Chris Vitale has been ranked at the top all season, but Josh Henson likely stole the #1 seed with a convincing 9-5 win in the dual at the Palestra. Cornell sophomore Scott Roth appears to be Vitale - most likely opponent in the semis. The two have never met.    174_Penn's Rick Springman was a champion and All-American in 2000 before sitting out last season. He was ranked first all season until being upset by Princeton's Greg Parker 12-6. Parker's unusual style of counter-wrestling and aggressiveness on top make him fun to watch. This leaves returning finalist and All-American Jim Stanec of Cornell ranked only third, and the likely opponent of Springman in the semis. It should be a barn burner, as Springman won 8-6 in the dual. Lehigh sophomore Brad Dillon could be scratched for the second year in a row, as he suffered a bruised or torn MCL in the dual against Penn. Dillon's absence would be a major blow to the Engineer's chances of a team title.    184_Rob Rohn of Lehigh appears to have returned to the form that made him an EIWA champion and All-American in 2000. But it won't be easy because both Clint Wattenberg of Cornell and returning champion Tom Tanis of Rutgers are capable of pulling off the upset. Rohn beat Wattenberg by just 8-6 at the Las Vegas tournament, and lost to Tanis in the finals last year. Tanis is the likely #3 seed, and will be challenged in the semis by either Marcus Schontube of Penn or former finalist Karl Rittger of Brown. A healthy Reggie Lee could be a threat to make the semis for Harvard. This weight class would appear to warrant an extra wild card bid from the coaches.    197_Jon Trenge of Lehigh, ranked #2 in the nation, appears to have a lock on the title. He has only three losses on the season, with two of them comin