You can't have the rosters main grappler be someone with strong normals and slow throws. There's gotta be a more pure grappler in the initial group.
If Alex is in, they could make him Gief-like, with fast, longer range throws so he doesn't end up filling the same role as Mika.
Yea the commentator seemed to imply there was a true heavy grappler with true gief spds. That's why I think Gief is in.