The Tactile Internet refers to the communication networks that have a closed control loop of tactile input and audio and/or visual feedback. Example applications include telerehabilitation and virtual training. To ensure that these applications have unnoticeable latencies and thus satisfied quality-of-service and quality-of-experience requirements, the Tactile Internet needs to guarantee round-trip latencies of approximately 1–10 ms. Such a stringent requirement cannot be met by today's technologies. In this paper, we investigate the potential of the IEEE 802.11 standards, which is one of the primary wireless solution of household users, to support the Tactile Internet applications. In particular, we analyze the wireless queueing latency from a tactile user device to an access point using one of the latest IEEE 802.11 media access control (MAC) protocols. Based on our model, a close-form expression of the latency is derived and analytical results are compared with simulations. More importantly, our work emphasizes the tradeoff between achievable latency performance and throughput of the MAC reference design. Our model can be used as a guidance to strategically select appropriate HCCA parameters to meet the required latency performance.