And if Congress had ignored the petition of the people then was Alabama a state? Colorado and Nebraska and Kansas are three examples where the people petitioned for statehood, created Constitutions, the whole nine yards and Congress refused to admit them. So where they states? Of course not. They were territories until Congress created them as states.
You don't seem to understand. They're not petitioning Congress for a name... they're petitioning congress for equal footing in the republic.