Cannot sign out of iCloud after updating to IOS8

I recently upgraded my iPad Mini with Retina display to the latest IOS version 8.1.2 on 12/27/14. After doing so and restarting the iPad, it repeatedly keeps asking for an iCloud password...like every 3 seconds. The thing is, it has signed me into my wife's iCloud and not mine. I have tried to enter her password over and over and it will not accept it. I tried to reset the iPad to factory settings, but to do so it requires me to sign out of Find My iPad which requires the iCloud password, which it will not accept. I have tried to reset her password on iCloud.com but I cannot sign in, which leads me to believe that my wife has forgotten her password. So I then tried to have her password reset by selecting "iForgot" and filling out the required info to send an email verification for a password reset, but no such email ever arrives in her inbox. So basically at this point, the device continuously asks for a password that I cannot provide and to reset it to factory settings I must provide said password that i cannot provide. I have tried to reset it to factory settings through Settings/General/Reset/Erase All Content and Settings AND through iTunes to no avail.
I have tried all options on this page If you're asked for the password to your previous Apple ID when signing out of iCloud. like has been suggested to others on other threads I have read, and nothing works.

You must (a) verify which account was used to lock the iPad (Find My iPad), and then (b) recover the password. There is no workaround for this (except off to an Apple Store with proof of purchase, they may unlock it).

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