I have a frame repair question?

I need advise from a body repair specialist or someone on here who has had experience with frame straightening. I have a 2000 ford ranger 4x4 that hit a tree in the front. It isn't totaled and has never been claimed on insurance. I am repairing it myself. Most of the damage was to the core support, header panel, and bumper mounts and bumper. I have all the things to fix it off of another truck. The frame from the sway arm back is perfect, but where the bumper mounts, it bent that plate across the front and bent the frame inwards about 6 inches back. Now, I have 2 options here. 1 I can cut the bent portion of the frame rail off in the front and cut the same amount of frame off the parts truck and weld it and the plate back on as one piece. 2 I can heat and bend the frame back out straight and grind the welds off the plate on the other parts truck and just weld the plate back across the front. What is the best option here. The only bent portion of the frame is the part that basically hangs the bumper in the front. The core support brackets are lined up fine and everything. What's the best option here? Cut the frame, or heat, bend, and weld on the plate across the front?

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