Speaking before Port Adelaide’s main training session on Wednesday, Wilson said Port Adelaide was unlikely to follow North Melbourne’s lead of not tackling Ablett when the two sides do battle at Skilled Stadium on Sunday.
“I don’t think Choco will do that (tell us not to tackle Ablett),” Wilson said with a laugh.
"But he [Ablett] is a tough bloke to tackle. Once he rolls the shoulders and the arms slip over the shoulder you might give away a free kick.
“He's a quality player no doubt, but he's no bloomin’ God of the world type thing. We can still play him. He's just a bloke and I'm sure Dom Cassisi can run up well against him.”
Cassisi has had the job on Ablett in the past and it was the Port Adelaide tagger who sealed the Power’s last victory over Geelong with a late goal at Skilled Stadium in round 21 last season.
Kane Cornes and Tom Logan are the other obvious choices, but Cornes is likely to continue his role on Brownlow Medallist Jimmy Bartel.
"We'll have to find someone to stop Ablett. Dom Cassisi's done it in the past and Kane Cornes has done jobs like that,” Wilson said.
“We've had games where he's had very few touches, but it won't be just one person that is responsible for stopping him. It'll have to be an effort from a couple of taggers and around the ground as well.
“With a player like that, as good as he is, you can't just put one person on him and say good luck. You're not a team person if you don't help out the tagger.”
Brett Ebert looks set to resume from an ankle injury this week after joining his teammates in Wednesday’s intense training session. Paul Stewart (neck) and young midfielder Travis Boak were restricted to walking laps. Boak isn’t considered to be in any doubt while Stewart is still rated as a ‘test’.
Chad Cornes failed to complete the session, but is expected to continue playing through his knee injury.
Port Adelaide faces an uphill battle to make the eight after a 4-7 start to the season, but Wilson believed his side was close to putting consecutive good performances together.
“We have had some disappointing efforts, but we're improving every week and we think we're only a couple of really important efforts in a game away from winning some games in a row,” he said.
"We did pretty well [the last time the Power beat Geelong]. We started well, persisted the whole game and those are the things we need to bring this week.
“If we can persist and play four quarters of footy, which has only been with us a couple of games this year, then we'll push them all the way and we'll definitely be going for the win.”
