Sturrock, who handed debuts to four new signings, vowed to continue rebuilding his squad.
He said: "From crowd to players to management and directors at Plymouth there was an apprehension with the changeover in personnel we have had to have over the past 18 months.
"We are short, I still think there are two or three players we need to really put an edge to us. But I would rather be in that position at this minute in time and have that bonus that we are going to bring in two or three more players.
"Managers before me have had the great backbone of the old guard but now we are having to rebuild from scratch and it takes time for that transition to kick in."
Frustrated Wolves boss Mick McCarthy said: "I told the players that I think we should have won that game, so there's no point being in there patting each other on the back.
"There were elements of it that were really good; the determination, coming back from being down twice, having to have a real scrap because there are not many teams that are going to come to Plymouth and turn them over. That side of it was good.
"The down side of it for me was we didn't finish the chances we had and I didn't think we defended particularly well - certainly for the two goals."