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HERSHEY &mdash; The blood round in the PIAA Championships is the third round of consolations. The nickname arose because it is an excruciating, tooth-and-nail, knockout round that creates tears of joy or tears of sorrow.
				To put it simply, it&rsquo;s the round where if you win, you&rsquo;re in the record books. And if you lose, you&rsquo;re not.
				Two Hazleton Area wrestlers &mdash; Jake Marnell and Seth Hunsinger &mdash; wrestled in the blood round on Friday in the Class 3A tournament looking to etch their names in state history by winning and earning a state medal.
				Unfortunately for the duo, they both felt the wrath of the round by losing and leaving Hersey without a medal.
				&ldquo;It definitely got its name for a reason. It&rsquo;s a very, very tough round, no matter what tournament you go to,&rdquo; Cougars coach Keith Maurer said. &ldquo;But here, the stakes are much, much, much higher.&rdquo;
				Earlier in the day, their teammate Charles Everdale lost his first match and was eliminated. The losses by the Hazleton Area standouts meant that the Wyoming Valley Conference would not medal in Class 3A for the second time in three years.
				In the blood round, Marnell was up first and took a 1-0 lead in the second period against Emmaus&rsquo; Caden Wright in a rematch of the third-place bout from last week&rsquo;s Northeast Regional Tournament. The score was also tied at 2-2 in the second period. But the 182-pound Wright got a takedown with just eight seconds to go in the second period to take a 4-2 lead.
				Wright got an escape in the third and fended off multiple shot attempts by Marnell to end his career. Marnell&rsquo;s stellar four years at Hazleton Area conclude with a pair of district titles and 134 career victories.
				&ldquo;In his career, he&rsquo;s a kid that probably put more time in noticeably than any other kid on the team,&rdquo; Maurer said. &ldquo;In the offseason, he was in the weight room trying to get people to follow what he did in the weight room on a regular basis. He will be truly missed.
				&ldquo;A staple there at the top. A leader. A great student. I can&rsquo;t say enough good things about him.&rdquo;
				Everdale, a 152-pounder who dislocated a finger at Wednesday&rsquo;s workout and has been banged up for the last two weeks, saw his career come to a close before his teammates when he lost in the second round of consolations to Chase Kranitz of Norwin, 11-1.
				He ended the season with 45 wins and picked up many accomplishments throughout his career, including two district titles and becoming just the 10th member of the District 2 150-win club.
				&ldquo;He&rsquo;s one tough, tough character,&rdquo; Maurer said. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s a great kid. He doesn&rsquo;t say boo. He&rsquo;ll do anything. He&rsquo;s gonna go down as one of the better wrestlers in school history and well-deserved.&rdquo;
				Hunsinger, a 195-pound junior, lost a one-point match in the medal-or-go-home round to Louis Carbajal from Spring-Ford, 3-2 to see his first state tournament conclude. Hunsinger ends his season with 41 wins this season and 93 for his career.
				His teammate Bryce Molinaro, a sophomore, also participated in his first tournament and lost both of his matches in the tourney&rsquo;s opening day.
				Maurer hopes his underclassmen learn and build on their first appearance at states.
				&ldquo;I hope they take it as just another tournament and they need to wrestle like they&rsquo;re capable of,&rdquo; the Cougars coach said. &ldquo;Bryce came in here as a sophomore &#8211; and I get that it&rsquo;s a little overwhelming &#8211; but I don&rsquo;t think he showed his true ability. I hope this makes them hungry to get back here.&rdquo;
				The Cougars made history with four state qualifiers for the first time &mdash; and were the first Class 3A team from the WVC to advance four to states in 42 years &mdash; but will leave town without a state medals to show for it.
				&ldquo;I saw some pretty good wrestling by us this weekend, but the majority of it we let our opponents dictate the pace and dictate the match,&rdquo; Maurer said. &ldquo;When you come down here, you gotta be aggressive and I don&rsquo;t think we put our best foot forward, unfortunately.
				&ldquo;I&rsquo;m super proud of bringing these guys down here, the four of them. They worked hard all year long. I just wish I could have got all of them through the blood round. Ultimately, we were hoping for just one but that didn&rsquo;t happen.&rdquo;
				The lone medalist from District 2 in Class 3A will be Delaware Valley&rsquo;s Jason Henderson, who won his 195-pound blood round bout via fall.

Hazleton Area trio misses out on medals at PIAA Class 3A wrestling championships