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Kim Morrison
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I posted a paper on the arXiv, Group Width which answers this question for manifolds of dim $>3$ with sufficiently complicated fundamental group (there will be no finite set of blocks). As Greg Kuperberg said, there are many interesting variations which remain open and are a nice challenge to technique, e.g. the case of simply connected manifolds.