According to a source with knowledge of the meeting, a team of top Romney advisers convened in Boston this week to set in motion a long-planned delegate management procedure designed to ensure that the delegates the front-runner has earned thus far stay in his column.

The high-level meeting’s participants included former Utah Gov. Mike Leavitt, longtime Romney confidant Bob White, senior adviser Ron Kaufman, general counsel Katie Biber, political director Rich Beeson and deputy political director Todd Cranney.

During the day-long discussions, Biber mapped out the legal intricacies of each state’s delegate selection process, and the campaign’s political advisers outlined strategies to possibly poach delegates from other GOP candidates, according to the source…

As the calendar flips to April, the Romney campaign’s newest balancing act will be appearing confident but not presumptuous, while also sounding the alarm about the monumental task of taking on a well-organized incumbent president.