Version of the dependency is not found when <exclusion>s are defined

<dependency>
                <groupId>com.google.appengine.orm</groupId>
                <artifactId>datanucleus-appengine</artifactId>
                <version>${version.org.datanucleus.gae}</version>
                <exclusions>
                    <exclusion>
                        <!-- Force this just in case -->
                        <groupId>org.jboss.maven.plugins</groupId>
                        <artifactId>arquillian-transformer</artifactId>
                    </exclusion>
                </exclusions>
            </dependency>

Maven.resolver().loadPomFromFile("/path/to/file").resolve("com.google.appengine.orm:datanucleus-appengine")