ITunes Match Tracks Stay In Waiting Status Forever

I am having an issue with getting four tracks to successfully upload to iCloud from my Mac. These tracks are spoken word (not audiobooks). I right click on them (individually and as a group) and click "Add to iCloud". This then starts iTunes Match to to match and go through its motions. The process completes without any errors, but the tracks show in iTunes as waiting. This will stay this way for days upon days without being available on any iOS device. The iCloud status in iTunes stays as Waiting and never changes. I can see the album art, but there is no option to download it from iCloud or play it.
I have tried the many described steps that others have suggested about converting the tracks to AAC, MP3, etc. I have even tried to change the bit rate to something higher. The tracks are starting out as 128kbps, 44,100kHz Stereo. I have tried bumping them up to 256kbps without any change in iTunes Match or iCloud. I have also removed them out of iTunes (keeping exising tracks, deleting tracks, etc.). Evey step I seem to make with trying to get these tracks into iCloud comes with complete failure. Am I doing something wrong? Is there some kind of solution that I am missing? I am about ready to throw the towel in for iTunes Match. The service works great if your music lives in iTunes to begin with, but I have nothing but problems trying to get any audio in from the outside.
Thanks for you help and suggestions.

The files are AAC audio and the size is 20MB or less. I have even tried shortening the track names in the ID3 tags. The actual file names are short to begin with and less then 15 characters.
Kind: AAC audio
Size: 20MB or less
Sample Rate: 44,100 kHz
Profile: Low Complexity
Channels: Stereo
I will try switching the genre to "Audio Book" and see what happens there, but really would like Match to work.

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