After hearing outcry and criticism from students regarding football season tickets, the University of Wisconsin Athletic Department responded Wednesday by arranging a lottery that will offer between 100 and 300 additional tickets. Vince Sweeney, senior associate athletic director of external relations, said the original e-mail reminding UW students to purchase tickets in April only reached about half of the university. Sweeney said the e-mail glitch was ultimately "a problem on [the athletic department's] end," and was the result of the computer system getting "bogged down." Any student who did not already apply for tickets is eligible to enter into the limited lottery, which runs from May 8 at 8 a.m. through May 10 at 4:30 p.m. To enter, students must call the athletic department's ticket office or log on to UWBadgers.com and click on the "buy tickets" link. But instead of running on a first-come, first-serve basis, Sweeney said students who enter their name in the lottery between the designated time periods all have an equal chance of getting chosen for the tickets. The actual drawing of names for the tickets will occur "shortly after" May 10, Sweeney said. The exact number of football tickets available in the lottery is dependent on the number of students who already have tickets, but then have a change of plans and do not return to UW for the fall semester. Additional tickets will come directly from that pool, Sweeney explained. "I would expect it will be a very popular lottery based on the speed of the sellout last week," Sweeney said. "I would guess there will be a lot of people interested in it." Nate Lustig, owner of the ticket site ExchangeHut.com and a UW junior, has been a voice for students since the athletic department's e-mail system failed to send out the ticket notice in April. The UW athletic department's choice to hold a lottery, Lustig said, will satisfy students who never received tickets because of the athletic department's glitch. "I think [the lottery] sounds pretty fair and is a great move by the athletic ticket office," Lustig said. "It makes the students happy since there was a mistake with the e-mails in the first place, and it will help students have a better feeling toward the ticket office."