WASHINGTON – A defiant John Kasich predicted a brokered convention Sunday and rejected any talk of dropping out of the GOP presidential race before Republican delegates gather in July.

“Nobody’s going to have the delegates they need going to the convention,” he told “Face the Nation.” “Everyone will fall short.”

It’s mathematically impossible for Kasich to secure the 1,237 delegates needed to secure the GOP nomination, but the Ohio governor insisted his two opponents –Donald Trump and Ted Cruz – will also fall short.

That would set up contested convention in Ohio July 18 where delegates are free to vote for anyone they want on their second ballot and are no longer bound to the primary election results in their states.

“We will go into Cleveland with momentum and then the delegates are going to consider two things: Number one, who can win in the fall — and I’m the only one that can, that’s what the polls indicate,” he said. “And number two, a really crazy consideration, like who could actually be president of the United States.”

Kasich said he’s frustrated by questions whether he should drop out to coalesce anti-Trump forces around Cruz.

“Why don’t they drop out?” Kasich said of his opponents. “I’m the one that can win in the fall.”

Trump has argued he should become the nominee even if he falls short of the necessary 1,237 delegates, but Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus flatly rejected any bending of the rules for the billionaire businessman.

“Plurality is a minority and a minority doesn’t choose for the majority,” Priebus told “This Week.” “So you have to have a majority (1,237) of the delegates in order to be the nominee. There’s nothing magical about the number. It’s 50 percent plus one. So no one’s disenfranchised.”

Priebus added: “You have to have a majority in order to be the nominee of our party.”

Trump has 678 delegates; Cruz has 423 delegates and Kasich has 143.

Since the GOP field has been so crowded Trump says it would be “unfair” him to deny his the nomination. “I think I will get over that number,” Trump told “This Week.” But he’s short “you’re going to have a lot of very unhappy people. And I think, frankly, for the Republicans to disenfranchise all those people because it that happens, they’re not voting and the Republicans lose.”

Kasich has been campaigning in Utah – one state where Cruz backers believe he could get 50 percent of the vote on Tuesday and deny Trump any delegates. Kasich said he doesn’t care about “parlor games” and he’ll campaign wherever he wants and “let the chips fall where they may,” he told “Meet the Press.”

He flatly rejected creating a unity ticket and agreeing to be Trump or Cruz’s vice presidential nominee.

“Under no circumstances,” he told “Meet the Press.” “Are you people kidding me?”