Hello Chris,
Samples are required to follow the specified naming scheme in order to be compatible with the CODM. There's no easy way around that, I'm afraid. The sample set creator's guide strongly recommends that sample set producers follow the naming scheme in order to have compatibility, but at the end of the day it's the sample set producer's choice.
The only way to would be to copy and repackage the samples in a separate installation package of your own (using a package ID in your allocated range), renaming them appropriately. If you wanted to make the files/ODF available publicly then you'd also need to make sure that the sample set producer was happy to allow that, and package the final result in the component installer format, so that people could install them all properly.