Anyone have experience transferring Marriott Points successfully? Tips? This has been painful and unsuccessful every time I've tried to do it.

Backstory: BF and I are traveling together. We both have points galore and want to make a reservation for 140k points under my name (I have platinum and he only has silver, and we want lounge access) but using his points (he owes me).

Our accounts have the same address. He called and tried to transfer points, but they said it could only be done towards a specific reservation AND only if I didn't have enough points to make that reservation. Let's say I have 200k points in my account that I don't want to use.

Do I need to...
1) Make a reservation for 200k points that I'll cancel later so he can transfer points to the reservation I actually want to make? Will those points "stick" once I cancel my old reservation?
2) Make the reservation with my own 140k points, tie up my remaining 60k with a fake reservation, have him transfer 140k for ANOTHER fake reservation, then cancel the two fake ones? In that case, would the 140k he transfers stick in my account after the reservation they were made for is cancelled?
3) Make the reservation under his account and ask the hotel very nicely to hook us up?

Thanks!!