I looked back and the "Ducati exclusions" was the post right after Casey had reminded everyone of the Friday midnight deadline. So it was suggested a little under 7 hours before the cutoff by all appearances.

I think I now see where I might have had better luck with my twins proposal from last year. While I suggested separating out the SV clan as lightweights and the Ducs/675/TZ's as middleweights, the proposal didn't include an additional class to run the middleweights. At the time I thought it would create more of a burden on the schedule to add a Thunderbike class so my suggestion simply changed the nature of Twins GTU and left the lightweights in Lightweight GP.