Multiple wolves can be problematic when they are starred but a single wolf or two without stars is easy to deal with, especially with a fully upgraded iron mace, which you likely have for bonemass and i'm still carrying mine with me. I do admit that if you get to the point of being staggered then you are screwed with no way to recover because of the wolf attack speed. So best is to avoid that situation.

One way to avoid that is to find the higher ground and alternate between heights then shoot arrows because their AI is pretty bad. You can dig trenches too to make it easy to fight them or go hide or sit on stone structures which always spawn in the mountains. But if it's a single wolf (or two) wait for them to come at you and backpedal a bit then smash them until staggered and finish them off.