08b Classic League landscape for D1 & D2

Has anyone heard of teams being placed into D1 for the next season who don't qualify to be there? I don't want to be specific because at this point it's just rumors, but I heard that a couple of the teams who finished near the bottom of D1 this past season will remain in D1. Also heard that they might bump up some teams into D2 that would have fallen into D3.

I'm not sure if this is true or not, but Wouldn't it make sense to bump teams up instead of awarding a team a spot for no reason? The teams who I heard that are remaining in D1 don't even have a team under the same club who finished top 10, so theoretically they shouldn't be allowed to stay in D1. I thought maybe a possibility is that a bunch of teams are maybe backing out or going to other leagues but that would be a big number of teams to go out... which is hard to believe.

Just conversation, not trying to start arguments but more so to get an idea of how classic works