With my cats now safely in the house....
To support what piltdown has said, Cessnas have lots of control available to land and hold the plane on only one mainwheel with the wing lowered into a crosswind. This control remains available to to point where the wing will no longer carry the weight, and the plane settles on on its own.
My nosewheel is not lowered to the ground until the full up elevator control can no longer hold it off - ever. As long as the elevator is able to hold the nose off, the rudder is effective enough to control direction, and more so, than the nosewheel.
The following photo was taken with about a 15 knots crosswind carefully chosen to be about 60 degrees off the nose to the left. Full flaps used. The aircraft was being held stable in this attitude, at about 45 MPH. Were it to be on pavement, there would be some mainwheel chirping, as the mainwheel is also sideslipping across the surface. I'm certainly not suggeting that this degree of wing low is necessary, but it is possible in a 150/172
