I hunted a fringe area with an official population estimate of 2 wolves in that 16 square mile area.
I couldn't hunt the first day. On the morning of the second day, I cut 20 sets of wolf tracks during my about 20 miles of driving around there, after 4 wolves that I knew of had already been harvested on the first day.
8 wolves were taken in that 16 square mile fringe area by the end of season (that count is just the ones I know of), and hunters with hounds were still chasing 6 more wolves at the point in time that the season closed on Wednesday and immediately retrieved their hounds when the season ended.
I think it would be a smart move for the DNR to send questionnaires to those of us who were out there looking for wolves and ask what we saw. I also think tooth sampling for an aging study, like they did for bears, would also be a good idea.