I received this a few hours ago from a friend of mine who is usually able to help me out with getting my issues resolved. He works at Sprint HQ at the Executive Level. I am just copying the most pertinent part of the email:
XXXXXXXX@sprint.com
Hi,
Unfortunately I don't have the power to move you into a TP2. Since the phone came out, we've had quite a few people try to "game" us to get into that device, and it is a very costly device to Sprint due to it having a GSM chipset in it as well.