Too many quarters

[frezer11]

During the intermission between the 3rd and 4th quarter, team A forgets to send a sub to the table in time to replace A6, who has reached the state limit on quarters played. While we don't care about the quarter limit, the team obviously does, and my question is: is there any rules justification for getting the sub in the game in exchange for a tech? My common sense says there is something they could do here, because the technical is obviously less of a penalty than an eventual forfeit.