SLC:
Seat opponents? Is this a contact sport?
Anyway, I find myself concurring with 747/Lex/Bizjet that you got hosed. You'd think DL would want to go out of its way to acommodate a Uranium Medallian, such as yourself, but, OTOH, if you have 185k Miles, then you also must have a million-billion skymiles, so it is barely a drop in the bucket.
Given my ordinarily not-so-great luck, I'd be pretty happy to plunk down 20K miles to get out of steerage on a long haul like that.
Regards,
O/H