Dylan Pietsch's exhilarating start to the Super Rugby Pacific season has put the once flanker-turned-winger back in the frame for an overdue national Test call-up this season.

But in an Olympics year and with unfinished business from exiting the Tokyo Games in the quarter-finals three years ago, would Pietsch swap a likely Wallabies debut while also becoming only the 15th Indigenous player to represent Australia in a Test XV for possibly another crack at an Olympic gold medal?

Pietsch cannot answer that yet, but the Wiradjuri man is also not ruling out a return to rugby's seven-a-side game in Paris by July of this year.

The flexibility required in rugby union's modified variant has turned around his junior days from an established loose forward to a robust outside back at the elite state level.

"I'm just taking it as it is, to be fair," Pietsch recently told Nine media.

"Last year I focused a lot on goals and reaching certain things, whereas this year I'm kind of taking it day by day.

"My goal is to be in the Wallabies and if I'm not, then the Olympics is there and it'd be pretty cool to be able to do that again.

"But yes, at the moment, I am trying to make the Wallabies, and if it pans out, it pans out; if it doesn't, it doesn't.

"Either way, I'd be very happy."

The 25-year-old, who was on the cusp of Wallabies selection all last year under sacked head coach Eddie Jones, could easily be on this year's Australian team sheet for Joe Schmidt, Jones's new national successor.

But the NSW Waratahs star is also one several Super Rugby contenders to head to the Olympics that comes a professional start in the shorter form of its code.

Sevens officials have spoken to Pietsch, Brumbies winger Corey Toole and Queensland halfback Tate McDermott – and also to their unions – about them possibly rejoining the squad just for Paris.

Former Wallabies captain Michael Hooper could be one of Pietsch's teammates after the Test great joined the Australian squad on the World Sevens Rugby Series tour when Jones controversially left out the 125-Test capped openside flanker from playing in the 2023 World Cup.

Pietsch instead was one of the World Cup emergencies and was contacted to rejoin the squad mid-tournament while touring for the Barbarians through England and Wales until the head coach changed his mind a day later, deciding against writing Pietsch's name onto the team sheet.

But publicly, at least, there is no complaints from Pietsch about what journey his unwinding career is taking.

"I've just got a bit more comfortable in my own skin now," Pietsch said.

"Like, I'm not as nervous when I'm running out there.

"I just back in what I'm good at and that's being very powerful, but also having a little bit of skill as well."

Pietsch displayed that renewed self-confidence in the Waratahs' season opener against the Reds in Brisbane just over a week ago, scoring two of the visitors' three tries from the left wing in the 40-22 loss to Queensland.

That was an exhibition of what five years in the sevens system straight out from a scholarship at one of Australia's best GPS rugby schools has done combined with being plucked from relative obscurity off the flank of the scrums for Randwick.

The Leeton-raised Indigenous talent returned from the 2021 Tokyo Olympics a smarter and a more-rounded performer for the 2022 Super Rugby rookie season that ultimately led to Australia A selection that same year in the new-founded wing role.

The turnaround of positions while picking up the pace for a 15-a-side Waratahs even drew Jones to name Pietsch in the squad for the 2023 Rugby Championship, but not quite entirely for that year's World Cup.

"My first games for the Tahs were my first games (on the) wing," Pietsch said.

"So just with my knowledge (now) and what I'm doing, and who I am, going on that Baa-Baas tour (last year), eight weeks being overseas, really helped me a lot.

"Being under boys like Tom Wright, Filipo (Daugunu), being with Hunter (Paisami), Len (Ikitau), all those boys really helped me find who I was as a winger.

"I'm definitely more of a ball-carrying winger, in that sense, and I am just sticking to who I am.

"Eddie (Jones) was actually really good with that, too, trying to like, simplify my game, so I can just focus on certain things. So now I've got a clear idea of what I'm good at."