Restore keeps asking for my wife's previous, 5 year old, no longer remembered, Apple ID password. What can I do?

Gen 3 iPad went into "Recovery" mode while updating to 8.0.2. requiring a "Restore." iPad is now in it's 17th hour of trying to restore and recover all data backed up in cloud and on MacBook Pro. Odd think - I keep being asked for a password my wife had on her first iPad, one associated with an email provider with haven't used in over 5 years. We have no recollection of that old password. What can I do?

First, the iPad should not take 17 hours to restore. Perhaps if your wifi was extremely slow, but if you're restoring from a backup made to the computer, it should take no more than 20 minutes or so. I would be inclined to start again - connect to iTunes, click Restore within iTunes, and go from there.
The only time an AppleID would get in the way of restoring is if it was used to set the Find My iPad feature. If this is the case, you're going to have to recover access to the AppleID. Start here:
If you forgot your Apple ID password
Matt

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http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1389
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The Three Best Alternatives for Security Questions and Rescue Mail
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‘iPad is disabled’ fix without resetting using iTunes
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