Gold Coast's Tom Hickey is heading to the Saints. Picture: David Clark Source: Gold Coast Bulletin
BREAKING: ST KILDA has landed the ruckman it desperately craved with Tom Hickey on the move from Gold Coast in exchange for pick 13.
The Saints and Suns will also swap later picks to seal the deal, while the official paperwork could be lodged with the AFL tomorrow.
SuperFooty believes the Saints will receive picks 26, 47 and Hickey. In return, the Suns will get the prized pick of 13 as well as 37 and 57.
The Suns tonight confirmed SuperFooty's report.
Hickey boasts enormous upside after an impressive end to 2012 and is poised to lend Ben McEvoy a big hand in sharing ruck duties at Seaford next season.
Hickey, 21, requested a trade to the Saints this month to move closer to his girlfriend but talks stalled last week when the Suns played hard ball, demanding a first-round pick as market interest increased.
The 201cm big man was a zone selection to Gold Coast.
The Saints traded their first pick, No. 12, to GWS in a deal which saw Claremont power forward Tom Lee head to St Kilda.
But Scott Watters' side was gifted pick 13 on Friday from the AFL as compensation for losing Brendon Goddard to Essendon, helping secure Hickey.
The trade means the Suns will now have a first-round selection in next month's draft despite trading pick 2 to the Giants for 17-year-old mini-draft selection Jack Martin.
Despite losing Hickey the Suns still boast a wealth of rising star power in the ruck, with Daniel Gorringe, Zac Smith and Tom Nicholls set to enter their third seasons in the AFL.
Suns football manager Marcus Ashcroft said his side was thrilled to gain a top-15 draft selection after coughing up pick 2 to Greater Western Sydney last week.
"Our ability to add pick 13 to our selections in the upcoming draft means we will have the ability to draft another elite young player to our club,'' he said.
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