Wolves missed the chance to go six points clear at the top after being held to a 2-2 draw with Cardiff.
Wolves and Cardiff share the points at Molineux
League leaders Wolves missed the chance to go six points clear at the top after being held to a 2-2 draw with Cardiff at Molineux on Sunday.
Wolves took the lead against the play-off hopefuls when Championship top scorer Sylvan Ebanks-Blake headed home on 11 minutes.
Cardiff hit back shortly after the half hour mark when Michael Chopra fired across Wayne Hennessey in the Wolves goal.
The Bluebirds took the lead three minutes after half-time when a Roger Johnson header from a corner found the back of the net.
Wolves rescued a point, somewhat fortuitously, when a cross from the left was fumbled over the line by visiting keeper Demitrios Konstantopoulos without a Wolves player in sight.
Roared on by a boisterous home crowd, Wolves came within a lick of paint of taking the lead after just five minutes.
Warning
Chopra dallied with the ball for far too long on the edge of his own penalty area and when he was dispossessed the ball fell to Andy Keogh 12 yards out.
His shot across goal beat the despairing Konstantopoulos but bounced back off the far post.
But the home side did not have to wait long for the opener.
Michael Kightly took a short free-kick on the left and cut inside, evading a couple of challenges in the process, before laying the ball out wide to Jarvis.
He floated an inch-perfect cross to the far post where Ebanks-Blake was on hand to get the faintest of touches with his header.
Wolves should have made it 2-0 in the 28th minute when some great one-touch passing near Cardiff's area found Ebanks-Blake clean through.
His shot was well saved by Konstantopoulos but Keogh blasted the rebound over the bar from 10 yards with the goal at his mercy.
And the hosts were made to pay just minutes later as Chopra levelled.
Chances
Paul Parry did well on the right-hand byline and squared the ball back for the on-loan Sunderland striker to register his sixth league goal of the season.
Ross McCormack, with an open goal two yards out, then failed to connect with Parry's cross as both sides pressed for a second before the break.
It failed to materialise but three minutes after the restart Cardiff were ahead.
The impressive Parry floated over a corner and centre-back Johnson rose highest to head past Wayne Hennessey and stun the Molineux faithful.
Both sides showed plenty of endeavour as the second half wore on, but neither seriously threatened again until the 74th minute.
Gavin Rae threaded a neat throughball for Parry but the winger failed to get a goal to add to his two assists as his effort beat Hennessey but drifted the wrong side of a post.
And the visitors were left to rue the miss nine minutes from time as Konstantopoulos' own goal ensured both sides took a share of the spoils.
