I'd do option #3, and then PRAY for rain!
NOW< I am NOT sure if your missing a step here or not
BUT I would also be adding any lime or fertilizer based on a soil test result?
if lime is needed I'd add before tilling,
fertilizer I would add after tilling and cultipack and then seed and cultipack again,
done this dozens of times over the past 30 yr sstarted planting food plots in 1988, was one of whitetail Institute first testing guys in PA )