Wake On Lan using a nic attached to a NetworkManager bridge interface

I have been trying to set up an environment for my hypervisor, which is just a Debian Bookworm running qemu. I have been using the web interface Cockpit to help me see things when the terminal is too arid. But in doing so, I had to switch from using systemd-nerworkd to NetworkManager. Recently, I learned how to create a bridge network so my VMs and the host can communicate with each other. But after doing that my wakeonlan stopped working. I understand that this is expected because the router now 'sees' the MAC address of the bridge instead of the one from the nic. From what I understand, wakeonlan works at the MAC level of the networking model. I tried using arping from other clients in the network and they cannot "see" the MAC address of my hypervisor (bridge). Now I'm starting to think it might not even be possible to have a bridge at the same time as wakeonlan. Is this possible? If so, how can I do it? preferably using NetworkManager.