The only people who got wet in 1 Peter 3 are those who were drowned in the flood. The wicked were baptized in the judgment of God so that the eight people on the ark could be saved from judgment. Water SAVED Noah and his family without ever touching them. The water which judged the wicked kept Noah up and away from judgment.
The SALVATION spoken of there has nothing to do with individual belief on Christ, for Noah, nor his family had the revelation of the Cross available to them. But that "baptism" (the drowning of the wicked while saving the righteous) is a "like figure" how that Christ's baptism in judgment (the Cross) saves the believer while it crucified and killed our OLD MAN and the SIN NATURE . . . BY THE RESURRECTION OF CHRIST. We are JUSTIFIED by HIS BAPTISM (Calvary) BY HIS RESURRECTION (Romans 4:25).
The baptism of 1 Peter 3 CERTAINLY has nothing to do with dampening or pouring a little water on any one's forehead, we do know that.
you have a very interesting take on 1 Peter 3:21, the only problem with it is it goes against the Apostolic Faith the Church has taught and believed for 2,000 years.
can you name one person that had a correct understanding of baptism from your perspective between 95ad when John died and the 16th century and the appearance of the Anabaptists on the world scene? anybody?