Carvell has been sidelined by a combination of injury and illness, while Hooker Mickey Higham also returns for the Wolves after a two-game suspension. But second rower Ben Westwood is out after picking up a one match ban for striking during the win at Wigan last time out.
St Helens acting head coach Mike Rush has a full-strength squad to choose from. Saints sacked Royce Simmons as head coach after a five-game winless streak but returned to form under Rush's guidance last week, thrashing world club champions Leeds 46-6.
Centre/second rower Sia Soliola has recovered from a knee injury and has been named in the initial 19-man party. There are no places for youngsters Lee Gaskell and Jamie Foster.
And Warrington coach Tony Smith is hoping a rejuvenated St Helens can help kick-start his team's campaign. Although the Wolves top the table after eight rounds, Smith is a worried man, insisting they have yet to find the form that earned them the League Leaders' Shield last year.
"You would expect at some stage they (Saints) were going to find some form, which is good," said Smith. "I'd rather play Saints when they're good and us find that bit that needs to take care of them.
"They weren't far off in any of their games. They were getting beaten by some close margins and we could easily have been in exactly the same position with the way we've played and managed to scrape home. "It's pretty ugly, the way we're playing at the moment. We're making too many errors and it's not from being expansive with the ball. It's causing us some real grief."
The game, which will mark the 300th career appearance of St Helens' England forward Jon Wilkin, is a 15,000 sell-out - a record for the Halliwell Jones Stadium and the club's highest attendance for 39 years. The ground capacity was increased in the close season after the club filled in two of the corners, enabling them to beat the previous record of 14,206 established for the opening game in 2004.
Warrington squad: Atkins, Blythe, C Bridge, Briers, Carvell, Cooper, Grix, Higham, Hill, Hodgson, McCarthy, J Monaghan, M Monaghan, Morley, Myler, Riley, Waterhouse, Williams, Wood
St Helens squad: Wellens, Gardner, Shenton, Soliola, Meli, Hohaia, Lomax, Perry, Roby, McCarthy-Scarsbrook, Puletua, Wilkin, Flannery, Laffranchi, Flanagan, Clough, Wheeler, Magennis, Dixon