Cold crashing w/ gelatin, enough yeast to bottle prime?

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If I lager and cold crash with gelatin will I have enough yeast still left to work on the corn sugar and bottle prime?

I am using wyeast kolsch and want some nice clear Oktoberfest. I plan to rack to secondary today.
 
My experience with fining in the secondary with gelatin combined with lagering is that you'll get a brilliantly clear beer that will carbonate, but more slowly than if you bottled directly from an unfined, unlagered primary. Purposely picking up just a little bit of the yeast sediment when racking helps, but you need to be careful not to stir it up.
 
Thanks. This is an oktoberfest so I don't mind how long it takes to carbonate, I just want to make sure it does.
 

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