Johnson helped Arkansas win the NCAA outdoor men's track and field championship Saturday, completing the Triple Crown.

Bermudian Wellman continued Arkansas' remarkable string of success in the triple jump at the outdoor championships, winning his second straight title.

"Everybody had me counted out,'' said the 24-year-old senior, adding that he was delighted to have proved his critics wrong.

"It made me mad that they didn't even announce me as the defending champion,'' said Wellman, whose win comes as a timely confidence booster ahead of next month's Barcelona Olympics.

Injuries resulted in a slow start to the season for one of Bermuda's premier medal hopefuls, but, he said yesterday, "I'm right back on track and I think I'll be in great shape for the Olympics.'' In leading the one-two finish, Wellman sailed a wind-aided 56 feet, nine-and-a-quarter, one inch short of his wind-aided winning jump of a year ago.

His victory -- the fifth in a row by Arkansas triple jumpers in the meet and the seventh in nine years -- plus the second-place finish by Johnson with a wind-aided, career-best 56-43 , gave the Razorbacks 18 points in that event.

They finished the 21-event, four-day competition at Texas' Memorial Stadium with 60 points. Tennessee, last year's champions, were second with 461 -- the same order of finish as in last month's Southeastern Conference Championships -- and Southern Cal was third with 41.

Earlier this season, Arkansas won the NCAA cross-country title and their ninth consecutive indoor championship. By adding the outdoor championship, the Razorbacks completed their second triple crown. Their first -- and the only other time they won the outdoor title -- was in 1985, when the meet also was at Austin.

Only one other school -- Texas-El Paso in 1981 and 1982 -- has won all three titles in the same season.

The stellar performances by Wellman and Johnson, the only seniors on Arkansas' NCAA team, overcame the failure of team-mate Erick Walder, the NCAA indoor triple jump champion, to make the final. Walder, who also won the indoor and outdoor long jump titles, had a best of only 52-41 during the qualifying rounds.

"I knew we had to go one-two with Erick out,'' Wellman said.

Walder, Wellman and Johnson had finished 1-3-4 at the indoor championships in March at Indianapolis.

Before reigning World Student Games champion Wellman's two consecutive victories in the outdoor meet, Arkansas had got triple jump triumphs from Michael Conley, the 1984 Olympic silver medallist, in 1984 and 1985, and Edrick Floreal from 1988-90.

Wellman, the sixth-place finisher at last year's world championships and the 1991 Southwest Conference champion with a personal best of 57-11 , got off his winning jump on his first attempt. The aiding wind was more than 121 mph, well over the allowable maximum of 4.473. -- AP BRIAN WELLMAN -- Bounced back from injury in spectacular fashion.