I hope he is a South American. The majority of Catholics are from there and it is time.
But this conclave is very, very different from those of recent history. No clear successor has been groomed. The college will have to do some serious thinking about the future and I bet youth will be a factor.
In any case, the St. Malachy "prophecy" says it will be "Peter the Roman."

Under 80 with the wisdom of 100 would be best, Redial.

Well, Redial, they picked a Pope from behind the Iron Curtain and it caused perhaps the biggest bloodless revolution in human history. It's the closest thing to a miracle I've seen. More people found relative freedom under John Paul II than anyone else ever achieved.
Maybe from the Far East this time?

John Paul II, Redial. He was so effective the KGB tried to kill him.
He visited his native Poland and after saying Mass in front of millions everywhere he visited, the Polish Communist government just dissolved. It started a domino reaction that ended up with the Berlin Wall torn down and the USSR becoming Russia again.
Sure, Reagan and Thatcher had an influence, but when the communists could not stop peaceful protests in the form of religion....it emasculated them.

To quote what Tor cites:

Lech Wałęsa, the founder of ‘Solidarity', credited John Paul II with giving Poles the courage to demand change.[40] According to Wałęsa, "Before his pontificate, the world was divided into blocs. Nobody knew how to get rid of communism. In Warsaw, in 1979, he simply said: 'Do not be afraid', and later prayed: 'Let your Spirit descend and change the image of the land... this land'."[101] It has also been widely alleged that the Vatican Bank covertly funded Solidarity.[102][103]

Do a web search on what that brave Walesa faced before all this: almost certain imprisonment and maybe death.

"But in the end, it was Lech Walesa who faced imprisonment or death not the Pope."

In the beginning, it was John Paul II, who went to an underground seminary when the Nazis ruled Poland and then was elevated to cardinal when the commies ruled, after he defied them openly for years. He knew, Danni, and he put his backside on the line long before Walesa woke up.

"Benedict was pathetic, the least inspirational Pope in my life time, well except for Pius XII."

Read his books on the Apostles and the life of Jesus. You will be inspired. He is one of the most cheerful and intelligent masters of exegesis I have ever read.

I look at John XXIII as tragic. He began the council and died (slowly and painfully, the poor man) before it was finished. He certainly did not favor hootenanny Mass or the oft invoked "spirit of Vatican II" abuses, which have only recently been addressed and corrected.
He was far more of a traditionalist than his admirers admit.
Still, he had an enormous impact on how outsiders view Catholics and therein lies his achievement. He was an enigma at exactly the right time.

Another civil and thoughtful discussion polluted by Reitz and Zat with their childish prejudices and mitigated appreciation of what is important.