Originally Posted by
jrl767
you might reach out to DL and ask if they can swap you to be the companion and the other passenger to be primary (administrative change only; not actually reticketing) ... there are several reports on the Alaska Airlines board of people having succeeded with this approach
Yeah, Delta isn't going to do that. Tickets WOULD have to be reticketed and then trying to circumvent the rules on top of that (not flying roundtrip together).