Pretty much, you wanted a straight fucking remake of the Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. We have one of those, it's called Wind Waker. Except it's in an ocean.

I was going for the spoiler-free approach but fuck it:

When Zelda died have way through the game reviving Midna, of course Midna was going to be a major character.

The whole point of Zant was to hide the fact that Ganondorf was the real bad guy. Just like in ALttP, Ganon was the master controlling the puppet that was Aganihm. Except in TP, he was controlling Zant.

So when you kill off a major character for most of the game, of course there isn't going to be a whole lot seen from them throughout the rest of the game. So you would have to replace them. Case in point: Midna. Midna replaced Zelda for a good portion of the game and Zant replaced Ganon, at least until after you kill Zant.

If either of you recall, you would know that Zelda was barely in OoT. Get over it.

Oh thank God.  I was really confused for a second there.

actually he was in the GBC games, you just had to password link them to get the true ending

To actually answer the OP, I would be a little disappointed if Ganon/Ganondorf was not in Zelda Wii. He is a great antagonist. I would still buy the game though. I'm sure it would still be great.

ODC knows his LoZ.

They could chance it once...
Link could be the antagonist and ganandorf the protagonist
jk
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we need Ganondorf as the main antagonist...and no shoehorned in ala TP or such

we need to know he's there at least halfway through the game..