Sammy could reach out to Gaspipe in the Lucchese before he made a move, same goes with him reaching out to the Colombo family, Genovese administration did not like Gravano but they hated Gotti more and Gaspipe could reachout to them. Bonannos, he knew a few, but Joe Massino was allied to Gotti, so he would need someone who had better relations with that family. Philadelphia would have backed Gravanos play, Scarfo would go for it as long as the Bosses approved, Gravano would have to get John Gambino and his crew on board, due to influence from Gottis faction, remember this was before Gotti really pissed off members in Queens, so those members would not have sided with Gravano and Frank. Frank would have been able to get the Bronx on their side. The big one is for them is to reach out to Jimmy Brown and Danny Marino, John Giordano was not happy with John Gotti order to Joe Piney, but Gotti was not interfering a whole lot with that crew so that is a wildcard crew. Gotti promoted a lot of new capos which created an unspoken loyalty, so they would have approach soldiers that were dissatisfied with their current capos who had some clout in the family. So they would have to make sure the Gambino Family administration would be strong, cause the Genovese and maybe the Lucchese would look for an opening to place a puppet there for them. Gotti already had put in motion a plan to weaken the Colombo family and it was working.