Sorry, my mind wandered...

The gurgling stream wandered through the open meadow.

Yes, "wandered" is the antecedent to the pronoun in the sentence. An antecedent is the noun to which a pronoun refers, and in this case, "wandered" is the verb that gives the action or context to the pronoun that follows.

I wandered lonely as a cloud" is an example of what

The stream wandered slowly around the meadow.

Happily, I only wandered around the mall for about 40 minutes until I found you.

It was not the pole that wandered but the continent wandered relative to a fixed pole.