Both Keith Rossiter and Niall Ó Ceallacháin stressed there were no 'hard feelings' after their flare-up on the sideline in the closing stages of their entertaining draw in Croke Park.
Chris Crummey's last gasp leveller secured a draw for Dublin, the home side having been reduced to 13 men at that stage following Conor Groarke's first half sending off and Paddy Smyth being shown a red card with five minutes of normal time remaining.
It was an anarchic, action-packed encounter, the favourites Dublin looked in command during the first half, leading 2-07 to 0-07 before a disastrous final 10 minutes leading into the break, the away side rustling up 1-04 unanswered in a period when Groarke was also banished.
The momentum in the second half shifted to and fro, with three black card penalties awarded, that rule proving a bone of contention for the managers afterwards.
The game seemed to have swung decisively towards Wexford when Lee Chin buried his 65th minute penalty, after Smyth was sent off, his black card following an earlier yellow. But at the death, Dublin pulled a draw out of the fire.
Lee Chin dropped a long range free into Sean Brennan's hands and Dublin mounted one final attack, from which Crummey found the equaliser.
"I suppose relieved to get a result from an outcome perspective. Obviously a very strange game," O'Ceallacháin told RTÉ Sport afterwards.
"A lot of chaos there, a lot of unpredictable stuff that you can never plan for.
"Probably heavily disappointed with periods of the game from our perspective. But then the overriding piece there would be in the last few minutes when we really up against it, to find a result in that situation is not easy and the lads found it."
Whatever about the resolve shown in the closing stages, the Dublin manager wasn't happy with his side's lapse in the lead-in to half-time, when a relatively comfortable lead was transformed into a deficit.
"It just wasn't good enough. We were hurling well, I thought," said O'Ceallacháin.
"We had been able to build the play well in the back six and we were a threat to them inside.
"For whatever reason, and it's not the first time, in that last 10-15 minutes we lost our energy, we lost our aggression, we lost our control of the basics.
"And we were punished anto go in at half-time two points down from a position where you're 2-07 to 0-07 up, it shouldn't happen and it's not good enough."
The Wexford manager admitted he was frustrated they didn't see out the win but stressed that he was pleased with the performance after what had been a difficult league campaign so far.
Amid huge strong turnover, Wexford had laboured through the opening rounds of the league, narrowly avoiding disaster against both Antrim and Down in the opening two rounds. However, they almost turned the form-guide on its head dramatically at GAA HQ.
"The league gets you ready for championship and I'm a firm believer in that," Rossiter told RTÉ Sport.
"Do I want to get promoted? Yeah, I'd like to get promoted. I'd like to fight hard for it. As long as the lads keep fighting for us and fighting for Wexford, I'm happy.
"Results look after themselves but we need performances. We need to blood more young lads into it.
"There's a serious turnover in the squad this year. I think someone said to me we had seven of the team that played against Dublin and Parnell Park last year in the championship.
"So it's a good turnover. But, you know, lads have pulled up their socks and laced up their boots and have gone to war a couple of days now and came out on the right side of it.
"And we're on unbeaten going up to Clare. I would be very happy if you had told me a month ago you'd be unbeaten heading into round five."
Things had got heated in the sideline as the game entered its frantic finale, the two managers giving each other reciprocal hair-dryer treatment at one stage during the second half. Selectors had to intervene to cool the situation though both manager shook hands warmly at the final whistle.
"Myself and Niall on the sideline. I think the two of us got excited," said Rossiter.
"We both used to hurl, we're both passionate about our counties. It didn't spill over, there was nothing about it.
"A couple of words exchanged, which is grand. We're well used to that, there's no problem.
"We both said we'll see each other in May. And we'll see each other in May. There's no hard feelings.
"We've all been there. We've all done stuff and pulled the odd little bad stroke on a field where you wouldn't be happy with yourself but you still have to shake hands at the end of the day and it's something very similar on the sideline."
"Myself and Keith? Grand," said O'Ceallachain. "It means a lot to him, it means a lot to me.
"It was the sharp end of it there, trying to win a big game. We shook hands afterwards. That's absolutely no issue."
