It's a pity someone had to lose.
"In a cup game there's got to be a winner and that's how football should always be played," said midfielder Wilson who scored the winner in the 128th minute.
Having come on from the bench, he said his fresher legs enabled him to support those at the coalface.
"It came off Sam Messam's legs and sat for me very nicely so I had to get it on my right foot - and luckily it did - and it opened up at the far post so yeah," he said of his winning goal.
"Angus' two goals in extra time was unbelievable," Wilson said.
Welsh import John was again the tireless worker, a thorn for the Olympic defenders as he foraged and fed in unselfish abundance.
"It's not about individuals. Angus pulled his back in so I got the winner at the end but if it wasn't for the whole team working for each other it would have been impossible."
In fairness, no players dropped their heads in resignation although the Greeks were entitled to at the final whistle.
Penalties, Wilson said, were on the back of their minds but finishing business in extra time was a priority rather than let it drag to a lottery of a shootout.
Wilson, 33, older brother of captain Danny Wilson, lauded the squad's depth.
In winning, the Blues kept their unbeaten run at home this winter, including four Lotto Central League matches.
"Staying unbeaten at home is the key thing. We want to make this place a fortress again."
It was understandable if Olympic coach Mick Waitt wasn't exactly jumping for joy.
"I'm sure it was [a blinder] from a spectator's point of view ... but I think neither of the teams defended very well and we paid the penalty in the end," the former Rovers and All Whites coach said.
Waitt said when his men were 4-3 up they should have shut shop but didn't. He wished the Blues all the best in their cup campaign and named McPeake Olympic's man of the match after the gloveman out-thought Matt Hastings to deny him a second penalty goal in two minutes of regulation added time.
Both teams could have put the game to bed but restlessness crept in. From the perspective of a spectacle, thankfully they kept adding to the script.
Olympic left winger Sam Blackburn drew first blood, 1-0, in the 11th minute after receiving a pass from right wing Andrew Abba before going around Rovers goalkeeper Jonty Underhill to tap it into the goal from an oblique angle.
The 1-1 equaliser came a minute before halftime when centreback Martin Packer tripped John in the 18m box. Hastings stuck to tradition in planting the ball on the left side of the goalkeeper.
In the 48th minute, former Rovers player Abba beat a defender before striking the ball past Underhill for a 2-1 lead.
In the 56th minute, Hastings crossed a ball from out wide left in the attacking third to find Bevin who casually poked the ball past McPeake to level terms, 2-2, into extra time.
In the stroke of the 15th minute of the first spell of extra time, there was deathly silence as acting captain Jimmy Haidakis coolly brought down an Abba pass at point-blank range before tapping it into the net for a 3-2 lead.
But the hosts didn't despair, working the ball into the 18m box five minutes into the second extra spell where teenager Kilkolly juggled and aligned himself before drilling it into the net from about 5m to level 3-3.
A minute later more deathly silence as substitute Tom Probert nodded in a cornerkick header to make it 4-3.
The tit-for-tat wasn't over. It was Kilkolly again who took a touch in the box to balance the ledger 4-4.
Wilson's winner came from a superb 45-degree cross back from John on the goal line as the Rovers' faithful started to believe, breaking into a rendition of The Blues Go Marching On.
