Parkland may have finished third in the team standings at last weekend's PIAA Class AAA wrestling championships, but it certainly didn't feel that way.

The Trojans placed all five of their wrestlers, but came away with no gold medals, as Nezar Haddad's trek to the 195-pound finals ended in anguish following a 6-0 defeat to Jan Johnson of Governor Mifflin.

Haddad's loss compounded the disappointment the program went through earlier, as two-time state champion Ethan Lizak (120) stumbled to fourth place following a 7-3 loss to Nazareth's Tyrone Klump in the third place consolation finals.

It was a difficult moment for Parkland's faithful to see Lizak's illustrious career end unceremoniously, as a Klump takedown late in the match sealed the medal fate for both wrestlers.

Lizak struggled with the moment, laying on the mat with his head down and then staggered across the mat in tears upon its completion.

Haddad's finals loss was a tough pill to swallow, but Lizak's night left him with a wrenching conclusion to his career.

"With Ethan, it was tremendously difficult," said Parkland head coach Ryan Nunamaker. "It's hard to see any of your guys lose, but someone of his caliber, who's had so much success, it's tough. I don't think people realize how much pressure there is to try and repeat and do what you've done before. He was devastated to lose in the semifinals and we tried to encourage him, but at the end of the day, it just wasn't one of his best days."

Lizak lost to Pennridge's Scott Parker 7-2 in the semifinals, in a battle between two of the top-10 wrestlers in the country at 120. Parker would lose to the top-ranked Luke Pletcher of Greater Latrobe in the finals, as the 120-pound weight class was loaded with top end talent this year.

That didn't mean Lizak, a Minnesota recruit, wanted to bow out the way he did. Nunamaker knows that despite how his season ended, Lizak still walks away as Parkland's best ever.

"He's accomplished more than 99 percent of people in this arena, so he's got nothing to be disappointed about," Nunamaker said. "He needs to be extremely proud of what he's accomplished. He's our most decorated high school wrestler ever at Parkland. He's a three-time district champ, a four-time regional champ, three-time state finalist, four-time state medalist, he's done it all.

"Unfortunately, it's not how he wanted his senior year to end, but he handles himself with such class. I don't know how he does it, but it says a lot about his character. I couldn't be more proud of him. It just hurts to see him end his career the way it did."

Haddad's first trip to the state finals was all but lost by the end of the first period when Johnson stunned Haddad with a five-point move near the edge of the mat, after Haddad was close to getting a takedown. That one move all but wrapped up the fate of the match, as coming back from a five-point deficit in the state finals isn't a favorable position.

"He was in on a deep shot and he couldn't quite finish it," said Nunamaker about Haddad's first-period mishap. "I think he thought he wasn't in any danger there, but we could sense that he [Johnson] was looking for a tilt. You don't see that often from a 195-pounder and I'm sure Nezar hasn't been in that situation before. Unfortunately, that was a big play in the match and really took the wind out of our sails."

Lizak finishes his senior season at 45-5, while Haddad ends his senior campaign at 45-3. The bright side for both families is that their younger brothers also medaled in Hershey, as sophomore Jacob Lizak (44-12) took fifth at 113 after pinning Northampton's Michael Scheetz in 1:38 in the consolation round. Omar Haddad (42-8) capped off his junior year with a seventh-place medal, earning a 3-2 ultimate tiebreaker victory over Fred Mantsch of Hempfield.

Senior Josh Ortman (38-13) finished in sixth at 152, losing to Michael Springer of Norristown 7-2 in the fifth place consolation round.

Nunamaker wishes the night could have worked out better for his seniors, but that can be the cruel nature of wrestling in Hershey.

"I thought Nezar had a great tournament," he said. "There's no shame in placing second in the state. I thought Josh did well. He moved up two spots from where he finished last year and with Ethan it was tremendously difficult. We want all of our seniors to go out on a good note and unfortunately, that didn't happen for us."