Okay, so not so much "crazy"... except that I grinded the entire thing in one day, one sitting.

My Blood Elf paladin hit 39 today, and suddenly I remembered that both WSG and AB have plate rewards available at 40 -- and as I was 39, I was just the right level for grinding it out!

Well, I did. 41 AB marks and 22 WSG marks later, my Blood Elf now is the proud owner of [item]20209[/item], [item]20206[/item], and [item]19581[/item].

And I'm still...

Norrath