My thought if I wanted to resaw them today for some reason is that it doesn't mater if they are quartered. Quartered wood, other than splitting out in the pith, is pretty adaptable to moisture problems. If you have fancy figure arising from some wild grain, then you have the potential for havoc. you need to have the ends well coated and uniformly coated post sawing.
Why would it be worse to go about resawing now? It depends how even the current distribution of moisture is. You assume it is even, but different. It is always better to have real numbers than guesses. But if you are correct and it has not already started to absorb moisture, or loose it, then it can be an advantage to shift moisture when the material is thinner, rather than thick. If the ditribution is uneven, cutting it in half will unbalance the pieces, but it won't necessarily cause problems. But there is another side to this. If the wood is of a type to give trouble, and it is dimensionally stable in the current section, you risk revealing some new condition when you resaw it. I have split wood down the middle, wood that was straight to have it radically deform into a near circle. Of course that kind of reaction wood is not going to be pretty in any circumstance, but there are degrees. So if you had some problem wood, and added the moisture problem it might be too much, while it might have been fine if acclimatized in the larger section, then resawn.
For the most part, wood drying loses are at their worst during the initial conversion from the log. I will loose as much as 25% in the initial post cutting process, but that is almost always due to imperfect conditions of storage, it is just that imperfection is much more serious initially. For the following 4 years after the first 6 months I am likely to experience zero losses. Presumably your wood is already near, so you should expect less problems. Downside is you pay for wood like that, so any loss hurts.
I would be helpful to know what kind of wood, size, condition you have. It is dificult with no details.
I always store wood as open to air on all sides as possible, never between steel plates. I would sticker it carefully. If the moisture can't go quickly through the sides it goes through the ends, and that is when splitting occurs.
Another option is to vac bag it. I used to have a shop with free electricity, and I put something in the vac bag over night, every chance I got.
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