Probably not.

But maybe. If you reserve the room in your name and put that the wife may be checking in before you do in the comments section, it may work, though at times when my wife and I have arrived at different times, with her checking in, they have asked her to have me stop by the desk just to show I was there. Not often, but it happens.

I wouldn't plan on it, but it could happen, it's pretty much up to the hotel front desk how much effort they want to put into it.