If nothing else, Wayne Kimmel has his foot in the door as a suitor in the potential sale of the 76ers.

The Daily News has confirmed through multiple sources that Kimmel, one of the founders of ETF Venture Funds, met earlier this week with representatives of Comcast Corp., the parent company of Comcast-Spectacor, which oversees the Sixers, Flyers, Phantoms, the Wachovia Center, the Wachovia Spectrum, Comcast SportsNet and various other entities.

A source confirmed that Kimmel was accompanied by a partner in the venture, Andrew Barroway of the law firm of Schiffrin & Barroway, of Radnor.

Sources also indicated that two other groups have been scheduled to meet with Comcast representatives, but that there should be no inference that these are the final three groups involved, or that Comcast is necessarily prepared to sell to one of these groups or any other group.

It is not known whether Comcast has set a deadline of any sort to resolve the situation.