TAMPA, Fla. - It all started with a bet.Nineteen-year-old Sydney Fowls and her cousins were planning a girls' trip from Columbus, Ohio to Tampa when the idea came to mind: See if they could get away with checking a pool noodle on their Southwest Airlines flight."They were like, ‘That’d be so funny, do it!’ And I was like, ‘I’m not doing that," Fowls said. "They said, ’We’ll give you $20 if you check your pool noodle' – and I was like, ‘OK cool, $20, I’m in college, I’m broke.’"Anyone who flies Southwest Airlines knows, your first two bags fly free – but a noodle is not exactly a bag.RELATED: 3-year-old’s request for morbid ‘Lion King’-themed birthday cake goes viral"At first I was like, Southwest is never going to let me check this, they’re.