Wycombe striker Sean Devine grabbed a hat-trick as the Second Division side stormed into the second round of LDV Vans Trophy.
Devine scored in the 23rd, 30th and 77th minutes and defender Mark Rodgers headed home in the 34th minute.
Yet that might have been so different but for two brilliant saves from Wycombe keeper Frank Talia in the first ten minutes.
After only forty seconds Talia punched away a David Graham volley, and then somehow scooped Graham's header up and over the bar in the tenth minute.
Wanderers were always one step ahead of Torquay in the second half and even hit the woodwork twice through Lewis Cook and lively right back Danny Senda