Are you able to have @ref in the component used for the modal?

[A-she-ton]

For instance, I'd like to have the following setup where I use @ref to capture a reference to a component:

MyModalComponent.razor:

...
<MyCustomGrid @ref="this._gridRef" Parameter1="this.DoSomething" />
...

MyModalComponent.razor.cs:

using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Components;
using System;

namespace MyNamespaceHere
{
     private MyCustomGrid _gridRef;
     
     public Action DoSomething => () => this._gridRef.Foo = someValue;
}

MyPageComponent:

...
public void ShowTheModal()
{
    _ = this._modalService.Show<MyModalComponent>("My Title");
}
...

It seems that whenever I add @ref to MyModalComponent.razor, I get the following error:
The type 'MyNamespaceHere.MyModalComponent' cannot be used as type parameter 'TComponent' in the generic type or method 'IModalService.Show<TComponent>(string, ModalParameters)'. There is no implicit reference conversion from 'MyNamespaceHere.MyModalComponent' to 'Microsoft.AspNetCore.Components.IComponent'. (CS0311)

If I remove the @ref, my project will build.

I hope this question makes sense. Is what I am trying to achieve not feasible with Blazored Modal? If you need any additional information, I am happy to oblige.

Thank you for your assistance.

[A-she-ton]

I found another way to achieve my goal without the use of @ref. I would delete this discussion, but apparently that is not a feature on GitHub.