How to reset a disabled iPad Mini without Mac or iTunes

Hi all,

I am sure you will have heard this one before:

PROBLEM / SITUATION

Given my dad an iPad mini for his 75th birthday (silly me) - he tried to setup himself (silly him) - iPad is now disabled after wrong password was entered too many times (should've known)

He doesn't have a Mac or iTunes. Just the plain iPad.

There is no data on the iPad, so a complete reset would not be a problem

WHAT I HAVE LEARNED SO FAR

- I can unlock it by using a Mac and connect via cable >> doesn't work for me as I am living far away and he doesn't have a Mac

- Can be done with iCloud and Find my iPhone >> doesn't work as the initial iPad setup wasn't finished properly and Find My iPhone wasn't setup

- Could potentially be done in an Apple Store >> would like to avoid this as the next one is far away

- Even if I push it to recovery mode, I need to hardwire it to a Mac >> no Mac

QUESTIONS

1 - Is there any way this can be done other than the ones above investigated

2 - if not, can use my Mac to set the iPad to recovery mode BUT NOT with my iTunes account, i.e. with the iCloud account that we setup for him

Thanks a lot for your experience! Really appreciate it!