Maria Theresa's daughters marriages without Dipolmatic revolution?

If the diplomatic revolution had not occured who might Empress Maria Theresa have married her daughters to instead of the Bourbon princes she did in OTL?
 
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If the diplomatic revolution had not occured who might Empress Maria Theresa have married her daughters to instead of the Boubron princes she did in OTL?

Most likely either into the German electoral/ducal families:
Maria Elisabeth was infatuated with the duke of Württemberg (however the Württember estates put a pin in that idea and insisted on a non-Catholic)
Maria Christine married a prince of Saxony (something that her sisters never forgave their mom for, and even his family disapproved) so just find a way to let her wed someone higher up (Friedrich Christian renounces his rights as his mother tried to get him to do, and next brother, Prince Xaver marries Christine)
Amalie was in love with Elector Palatine's nephew but it was considered a poor match (as well as against the designs of Austria in Bavaria)
And the youngest three - Josefa, Karoline and Antoinette can wed into Savoy, Bavaria (as Maximilian III's 2e wife) or Poland (aswife to Stanislas II - he made a suit for several princesses: one of Maria I of Portugal's sisters; Maria Elisabeth of Austria;a princess of Savoy (sister to the comtesses de Provence and Artois) - but Ekaterina II always cockblocked him).
 
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