Sorry if this has been asked a dozen times before, but I didn't find my exact scenario.

This morning I happened upon an available F award from HKG to SFO with a good-but-not-perfect date. I called to have it held while waiting for the points to move over from the credit card. As such, I don't have enough miles at the moment to wait list some alternate dates. Once the miles show up, can I wait list some other dates before using my miles to confirm the hold?

Naturally, I need enough available miles to wait list, and once I confirm my booking the miles I transferred in will have been spoken for. I'm assuming that wait listing won't tie up any miles and confirming the hold won't invalidate the wait list since I'm out of miles at that point.