Hawthorn’s Jarryd Roughead and Grant Birchall are free to play in Saturday’s AFL grand final against Fremantle.
The pair both faced match review panel scrutiny on Monday over bumps laid in Friday night’s preliminary final against Geelong.
Birchall has been cleared of any wrongdoing while Roughead has been booked for rough conduct, but can accept a reprimand.
He was the only player charged from the two preliminary finals.
The Coleman Medallist was cited over an off-the-ball bump which downed Geelong’s Cam Guthrie.
While the Hawk star was deemed to have made high contact, the impact was deemed low, despite Guthrie spending time on the bench afterwards.
Had the bump been categorised as having medium impact, Roughead would have faced a ban.
Birchall crashed into Mathew Stokes, after the Cat had taken possession of the ball, with the impact of the bump knocking the ball clear.
But the match review panel found that contact was made only to the body, so no charge was warranted.
It has been a decade since a player has missed a grand final through suspension.
The most recent was Collingwood’s Anthony Rocca, who was banned for the 2003 decider against Brisbane for striking Port Adelaide’s Brendon Lade in a preliminary final.
Teammate Jason Cloke missed the previous year’s grand final for striking Adelaide’s Tyson Edwards.
Sydney co-captain Barry Hall came close to missing the 2005 decider, for punching St Kilda’s Matt Maguire in the stomach in a preliminary final, but succeeded in having his striking charge downgraded at a tribunal hearing.