Wicket turns form into a div and panel into a form

I currently have a tabbed panel inside a model window in which I want a form to exists.

Everything is working properly, BUT the form declared in my markup is turned into a DIV and the panel into a form.

Below you can see my 1. markup for the modal window, 2. the code of the button which created the component within a page3. the markup of my form being added to the SubmitToRegistrarPanel4. The resulting html ...

This prohibits me from controlling action, onSubmit etc... ultimately, I want to set the original action of the form, when the panel is being created in such a way it will first post to an external CAS, then come back as a service to the handler (back to wicket)so I can get a service ticket.

Please help, thanks.