But while pondering that, let's reflect on how this drama has allowed a number of other characters to also emerge from the footballing shadows.
Otherwise unheralded Vanuatu team manager Laurence Sisi got the ball rolling with a simple 53-word protest about Wynne's eligibility, noting he was born in Johannesburg on March 20, 1995.
While he goofed in spelling Wynne's name wrong (left off the "e"), Sisi presented a muscular case in every other respect. The proof is it ultimately triggered a 19-page Oceania decision with a further 12 pages of exhibits, the backing of Oceania football boffins, and for 24 hours may even have tripled Papua New Guinea's email traffic.
First to surface in defence of Wynne was New Zealand team manager Rob Pickstock. It is unclear how far Pickstock's formal job description extends, but Rob at least has form in dealing with immigration, nationality and passport issues.
Pickstock himself emigrated from South Africa, and is a former managing director of Kiwi Ora, a company which targeted migrants wanting to learn more about New Zealand (before being struck off in 2014). He has been NZ Football's international teams manager since April last year, and did the same job for Wanderers SC in the 2013-14 ASB Premiership.
His opening line in defence of Wynne was to refer to the Pacific Games rulebook, arguing any challenges had to be made 35 days in advance and settled 20 days before the start of play. Pickstock pithily concluded: "This complaint from VFF (Vanuatu) has been lodged too late for consideration".
That simply didn't wash with Oceania, and next to appear was the previously obscure Brandon Chik, who introduced himself as New Zealand Football's "rules and legal manager".
For someone with such lofty title, surprisingly, Chik has zero football profile. But for the record, Chik is an associate of Auckland law firm Shieff Angland. They're the people responsible for drafting most of the national body's own regulations (which, incidentally, are in the middle of a huge overhaul because they don't scrub up to Fifa standards).
Chik chirped in early in the Wynne case, and at least succeeded in gaining a short time extension for a full New Zealand submission. He reassured Oceania the "initial view" was Wynne was indeed eligible to play.
But Michael Song, the Korean-born head of competitions at Oceania Football Confederation, was singing from a different sheet, and not at all in harmony.
He insisted New Zealand provide evidence that Wynne had New Zealand-born parents or grandparents to avoid automatically deferring the matter to the Oceania disciplinary committee. It was the inability to do so which ultimately led Oceania to declare Wynne ineligible.
Song's LinkedIn page reveals he is interested in poverty alleviation. That's a subject NZ Football may also take more interest in if they can't sort out a successful appeal, given the butchered Olympic campaign is estimated to cost the code millions.
Chik quickly handed over to NZ Football solicitor Shelley Eden, a partner at Shieff Angland who specialises in employment, trade practices and intellectual property.
Last year Eden represented three synthetic high retailers at a Hamilton City Council hearing into its draft psychoactive substances policy, so she is used to tough gigs.
But this case proved to be even less of a legal high for her than the Hamilton experience, as she unsuccessfully argued the Vanuatu protest was "patently incorrect", "totally unfounded" and "no disciplinary sanction therefore needs to be imposed".
Eden reckoned Wynne was in the clear because he had lived in New Zealand continuously for at least two years, and had not played for another country.
"He holds, in effect for the purposes of football regulations, two nationalities, South African and New Zealand," she wrote.
However Oceania disagreed, pointing to a seperate article in Fifa statutes, setting out more stringent criteria (article 7) when players acquire a new nationality.
"As would be expected, the criteria in such cases is more onerous than where a player has an entitlement to represent more than one association by virtue of his or her nationality at birth."
Tai Nicholas, the OFC general secretary then stepped in and referred the matter to Fifa's Competitions Department - only for them to reply that Oceania must tidy up its own mess.
At this point Nicholas made a small blue in initially referring to "Solomon Islands" rather than Vanuatu as the protesting party - and imagine the strife around the Islands if New Zealand had committed such an error - but quickly corrected it.
Nicholas heads the Auckland-based Oceania secretariat, is a former Cook Island lawyer, and knows a thing or two about regulations. In 2011 he was given a place on Fifa's Revision of Statutes Task Force entrusted with reviewing the global rule book.
Nicholas is sometimes a fiery and passionate character who has not been shy of rubbing New Zealand Football up the wrong way in the past. But on this occasion he's been sticking strictly to the facts, and it is his name and signature that sits at the bottom of the OFC disciplinary committee written report.
Ultimately he may steal the show in the final act of Gone With The Wynne, if only because it will take an awful lot for an Oceania Appeals Committee to reverse something he has signed off on.
