You can enter with a Tourist Visa of a Visa Except entry.
Once here you can apply a for a Non Imm O Visa and after 2 months apply for a 12 month extension of stay.
800,000 Baht in a Thai bank needed for both of you.
Or proof of 65,000 Income.
Yes your wife can apply as your Wife with nothing in the bank needed but she would need to apply for the Non Imm O Visa outside of Thailand.
Forget O-A Visa as it needs the rip off insurance to get one.