We consider two recent open problems stating that certain statistics on various sets of combinatorial objects are equidistributed. The first, posed by Anders Claesson and Svante Linusson, relates nestings in matchings on {1, 2, . . . , 2n} to occurrences of a certain pattern in permutations in Sn. The second, posed by Miles Jones and Jeffrey Remmel, relates occurrences of a large class of conse...