Haahahahaaaaa...thats a big job there to take your tranny off to check your flywheel. Especially cause its a VW its even more work!!!!!
anyways i had that same kind of ticking before i changed my tranny out...it actually was my throwout bearing it came off of the forks and was spinning and the chattering/ticking was the trowout bearing rubing on the presure plate you could seee where it was rubbing.