Auughh! I hate WF!

They WILL tell you that your account is closed, but they WILL force it open when the ach transactions come through.
They won't close the account with a neg balance. But - It's the best thing you can do. With the account negative and the overdraft protection taken off these pdl transactions won't go through. After 30 days of the account being neg they will close it. Then you can set up a payment plan with them.
This isn't the ideal situation. The only other thing that may work is lying to them and saying that your purse was stolen and someone took your account info. That may be a better option, although I don't advocate lying, I really hate WF. Can you tell they totally screwed me? That was who I banked with back when I had my pdl mess.