Message Board : OOP Stop-and-Go vs Outright Shove

I witnessed this hand recently, and would be curious to folks input.  It was a small buy-in tourney.  I was eliminated, and was dealing the bubble.  4 players remained as the blinds beat up the stacks.

Player A - Best player remaining (since I was dealing  )  Aggresive, imaginative, knows the game well.  Chip leader with 35 BB

Player B - Average 11 BB stack

Player C - Tight, straightforward player 20 BB

Player D - Uber Tight, Calling station at times.  He had ~20 BB as well.  If he enters preflop, he has a hand, and almost never folds until he sees the flop. 

The Hand:

Player C folds

Player D opens the betting for 3x BB.  He clearly has a hand.  Pocket pairs and well related overs are most likely.

Player A folds

Player B finds AK in the BB, and moves all in.  Player D calls and rolls 88.

The flop is Q  J  x…it does not improve for Player B, and he is eliminated.

My feeling was this:  Given the calling station mentality of Player D preflop, and the Uber-tightness post flop, that a call for Player B might be a better play here, because it gives a better, scarier opportunity for Player D to fold.  Call the preflop bet, the shove the flop, like an OOP stop-and-go.  All the chips are going in regardless.

I pondering this conclusion regardless of the actual results (the board with a Q and J are perfect for this one hand), but I am more thinking about a random flop.  All unders to the 8’s would get called…a board with and A or K might not (which would really be unfortunate for Player B).  This is ONLY against Player D.  Is the OOP stop-and-go worth it for some fold equity?  Or is it simply always, always shove time?

OOP, I might stop and go with AK.  Not very often though.  The tight players range is weighted towards big As simply by card distribution.  We’d prefer to be all-in preflop in a situation like that.  Also, I prefer to shove AK to guarantee me all 5 cards.  If we run the stop and go with that hand, we risk catching a flop like 774 and no pair is going to fold.

I really like the stop and go with pairs to balance the times I stop and go with air.  Pairs do better against overs with the stop and go because overs miss so often.  Even though you are ahead pre-flop, you pick up extra equity by getting overs to fold post flop when they only get to see 3/5s of the board.  Every once in a while, also, you can abort the go part if the board comes AKQ.  Mostly, though, I commit to the move even if there are overs.  Usually, overs are just as scary to the villain as they are to me.