[WORKFLOW] Proper audio tracks management ?

Hi everybody,
I'm stuck on a tricky workflow question.
Lets say I've got a short movie which consist of a simple dialogue scene :
It's shot with one camera : 1 track of video + 1 stereo audio track (will only be used for sync)
audio recorded on an external audio device : 3 mono tracks (1 boom + 2 lav mics).
I would like to :
     1* import everything in PPro and sync video+audio for all my takes (= 1video+1stereo+3mono tracks for each clip)
     2* let my editor make the cut without having to drag a bunch of audio tracks around (= 1video+1stereo)
     3* send audio to Audition (or export OMF) and get all my tracks back, with sync preserved (= back to 1video+1stereo+3mono tracks for each clip)
Is this workflow possible ?
Precise questions :
     When I'm syncing, should I nest or merge my synced tracks ?
          > Nesting give me a stereo mixdown to edit (that's nice), but how can I "unnest" my audio tracks for mixing ?
          > Merging gives a clip with a bunch of tracks, how can I hide some for my editor to work ?
     Other solution : could it be possible to let the editor work with the scratch stereo sound and then unlink/replace with a multrack audio file ?
Thanks for any input on this !

Lets say I've got a short movie which consist of a simple dialogue scene :
It's shot with one camera : 1 track of video + 1 stereo audio track(will only be used for sync)
audio recorded on an external audio device : 3 mono tracks (1 boom + 2 lav mics).
This part becomes easier if you have matching timecode or know the offsets at least.
Syncing is actually the easy part, even with DLSR : you can use a timecoded slate, PluralEye (or even the new audio sync in PPro CC).
I would edit using the off camera audio only ...then after edit lock..I would lay in audio tracks from external recorder ( using TC matching).  Do not unlink original audio at any time.
(The above is fairly standard practice and simple.)
It makes sense.
But being stuck to edit with bad scratch audio and have to rebuild a synced sequence at the end of my project... :-(
Adobe provides us with great option to sync our video and audio BEFORE we begin editing.
That's because syncing afterward is maddening :
Let's say my dialogue scene is one long continuous take for each actor (= "actor_A.mov" and "actor_B.mov").
I will end up using maybe 10 instances of each file or more (one for each sentence of the dialogue),
and I will have to sync my audio tracks to every single piece, by hand !
Which would take hours...
It's 2013, we need an elegant workflow !

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