Super League: Warrington Wolves set for semi-finals after 36-23 win at Wakefield Trinity

Ryan Atkins - a former Wakefield player - celebrated a late try with an interception

Warrington Wolves settled a high-scoring, entertaining final regular season game 36-23 against Wakefield to move into the play-offs with a win.

Ryan Hampshire's drop goal edged a 13-12 first-half in Trinity's favour, as both teams scored two tries apiece.

The second half remained a close affair until the visitors pulled clear late on to outscore Trinity by six tries to four in total.

Steve Price's Wolves face St Helens in their semi-final next Thursday.

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Ben Murdoch-Masila and Toby King grabbed four-pointers in the opening 40, with Stefan Ratchford, Jack Hughes, prolific kicker Dec Patton and former Trinity centre Ryan Atkins completing the scorers.

Hampshire, who has now signed a new one-year deal at Trinity to end speculation surrounding his future, scored one of the four tries for Chris Chester's hosts, along with Tyler Randell, Joe Arundel and Ben Jones-Bishop.

Trinity could still yet finish fifth in the Super League, if Huddersfield are beaten at Catalans on Saturday.

Wakefield coach Chris Chester:

"I couldn't be prouder of the guys. We've done it tough over the last three weeks. We gave it everything but we just came up short. Warrington are a good side.

"We threw it away. We put ourselves in a good position to go ahead and win. But that try just before half-time killed us. That kind of gave them a leg up.

"Reece Lyne went to kick the ball and missed it. I'm not over-critical of Reece there but we need to defend that better."

Warrington coach Steve Price:

"We're going to have to go up quite a few notches, St Helens have been the benchmark all season and rightly so. We'll be big underdogs and we're happy with that tag.

"It's always quite difficult coming down to Wakefield. I was really pleased to go in at 13-12. I always felt we were in control of the game considering we had only one yardage kick from them coming out of the back end of the field.

"We addressed that at half-time and I'm really pleased with the second half. Psychologically it can be quite difficult knowing that you've got a semi-final to play for next week, knowing that it's a dead rubber. But we're just excited that we got through unscathed, no injuries."

Wakefield: Jowitt; Tupou, Lyne, Arundel, Jones-Bishop; Miller, Hampshire; Pauli, Randell, Arona, Ashurst, Batchelor, Crowther.

Replacements: Wood, Huby, Horo, Annakin.

Warrington: Ratchford; Atkins, Goodwin, T. King, Charnley; Livett, Patton; Hill, Clark, Cooper, Hughes, Murdoch-Masila, Westwood.

Replacements: Philbin, G. King, Akauola, Smith.

Referee: Marcus Griffiths (RFL).