Consider a random matrix $\mathbf{A} \in \mathbb{C}^{N \times N}$ of rank $m$ with $m < N$ that follows the Wishart distribution ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wishart_distribution ).

I have a feeling that any submatrix that has $m$ columns is going to have rank $m$ with probability 1. Might be obvious to some of you in this forum but I would really like your help. 

I found this work ( http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=1628747 ) that gives the density function of a Wishart matrix of rank $m$, ($m < N$) but after that I dont know how to show that any submatrix will also have rank $m$.

If the rank of the matris is $1$ then obviously any 1-column vector has rank 1 (a.s.). But, lets say that the rank is $2$. If I take any two column vectors, I believe that the probability that the first is going to be a linear combination of the second has measure 0. Is this obvious? 

Actually, I am not sure whether the Wishart distribution makes any difference to the problem. Probably in the case of a random matrix distributed according a continuous density function (lets say gaussian random matrix) similar statements should hold. 

Thank you very much for any references, ideas, suggestions.

George