COUNTIFS of random Table Column

I have been fighting with this for a few days, and I feel like I am missing something obvious.

I have two tables. First table is just the headers and one row of dropdowns

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2nd Table:

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So for the first table, the first dropdown is a validation list of the area column of table two.

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Now I want the second dropdown to pull up the list from the 2nd or 3rd column based on the value selected in the first dropdown.

If I use this I can get DC1 or SV1, but I cannot figure out how to do the COUNTIFS section based on a variable column

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(Using Excel 2016)

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