Throwing them under the bus is even worse in that regard, and something I haven't ever seen in 14 years of attending hackathons (practically as a career at some points)
At the same time, I wouldn't feel right if I was getting equal credit for being on a team where someone else did the vast majority of the work. It sounds like you're a reasonable person so what do you think is an effective way to handle a situation like this?
Looking back, to your point, I should have been more assertive earlier on with activating them so that we could all feel good about each others contributions. Thanks for sharing your perspective.
And remember the spotlight is always grows big enough to fit the cast: no one's going to view your work in a less impressive light because there's two other names there, and any reasonable person is going to make their best effort to commend/communicate with all three of you if all three of your names show up.
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I've been in a similar position but I had the opposite problem: teammates trying to attribute a win to me, and me having to very insistent it was a team effort. I think it's just easy to underestimate how many pieces need to fall in place while you're building on a short timeline and under high pressure. From ideation to implementation, just the presence of teammates can have a strong effect (for all you know, part of your subconscious drive was just to show the other two teammates it could be done!)
My teammates wanted to pitch another idea of a "Game copilot" and weren't able to execute on that. Even at the end, they were trying to push me to present that part but the doom part was the only concrete thing we had.