Wedge 1 was completed by stretching out a cube and then in edit mode grabbing the top edge and moving it down to exact location as the bottom edge while having “merge vertices move to the same location” on so the 2 edges become one.
Wedge 2 was exactly the same as was in the course.
I found wedge 1 only took like 10 seconds to create while wedge 2 took 1 minute.