I figured it out. Please see my reply to OP. It was missing 2 things :
FortiAPs need to be running 7.2.2 and "set static-isl enable" needs to
be set on both fortilink trunks that are formed. Once you do that, it
all works just keep in mind the the le...
After spending the entire day yesterday trying to get a fortiswitch
enginner to assist me, I finally have the missing part. The engineer
told me that the Fortinet article
https://community.fortinet.com/t5/FortiSwitch/Technical-Tip-FortiLink-over-P2P-...