I get the impression your hunter told you that because he doesn't want to do the adds himself - which he could with relative ease. Have him get a turtle pet and the MD glyph, have him put his pet wherever you want the adds to die and use pet's CDs and an occasional heal to keep the turtle up. He can switch pets in transition to phase 2.
I'm not saying, this strategy doesn't work but for a guild just trying Nef the first time, I doubt this is recommendable.
edit: with your setup, you can try the strategy we used for our first kill. Have the DK spec Frost (which he probably is anyway) with Hungering Cold and bribe/force/beg your mage also to spec frost. DK picks up all adds and freezes them once they're in their spot, than the mage takes over with pet nova/Frost Nova/maybe Coldsnap Frostnova. DPS will suffer and the mage will probably cry a lot, but it works.