I prefer facing the owner of the Power Stone compared to other solutions. I wonder if that's still possible.
If it's not possible, I am fine playing against Linkcat.
Yeah, sorry about this. If all 19 players are in, there has to be a bye, and the bye has to go to one of the stone holders, and RNG picked Wyand. If the bye went to anyone else I'd be biasing what was supposed to be a uniform random decision, and if the bye went to Linkcat it would set a really nasty precedent.
The real solution is to just win all of your matches until you play an opponent with the Power Stone. It shouldn't take more than four of five rounds.