germination is not necessary, during the process of planting the germinated seed it is VERY easy to damage your seedling, as long as it didnt dry out i would say go ahead and prime the soil and plant it... good luck
What I have been taught is to get a couple of pieces of paper towel, wet them enough so that all the paper towel is moist with a little extra moisture for expenditure. Put your paper towel in an old margarine tub, put your seeds in between the paper towel layers, and put in a cool, dry and dark place and leave them for a couple of days, only checking to see if the paper towels are still moist.
After about 2 days I noticed mine had cracked, and after about 5 days all of them had shoots, one even had 2 shoots, and one had strangled itself.
I then put them in rockwools and place them in a propagation tank under a 150w EnviroLight.
That's only how I have been taught, and it works, so....yeah.