Your story about the "guy you knew in college" aside, you can most certainly be arrested for "resisting arrest" and nothing else. While state laws vary, when a police officer legally impedes your freedom of movement and you refuse to comply, you have resisted arrest. In other words, when an officer legally detains you (such as he might when writing you a citation for jaywalking or pulling you over for running a stop sign), you are legally under arrest, even if the encounter would otherwise end with no Miranda rights being recited or handcuffs be put on. If you resist this detaining or refuse to obey an otherwise lawful order (not request, an order), what you can be charged with in many jurisdictions is "resisting arrest."
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Your story about the "guy you knew in college" aside, you can most certainly be arrested for "resisting arrest" and nothing else. While state laws vary, when a police officer legally impedes your freedom of movement and you refuse to comply, you have resisted arrest. In other words, when an officer legally detains you (such as he might when writing you a citation for jaywalking or pulling you over for running a stop sign), you are legally under arrest, even if the encounter would otherwise end with no Miranda rights being recited or handcuffs be put on. If you resist this detaining or refuse to obey an otherwise lawful order (not request, an order), what you can be charged with in many jurisdictions is "resisting arrest."
Try 30-somethings. I was 37 when I went and had quite a lot of fun climbing on stuff. Rebar is a bit tough on the knees though.