If he's really hungry I think you should feed him. I still do that
with my 25 mo. I wake up at 6 am (we're both late morning guys so he wakes at 830 am) and do a sort of dream feed. I just pop the bottle before he wakes and he drains a whole bottle. He sleeps through the whole process. Some lo's are just like that, they have a problem keeping an empty stomach for periods longer than 9 hours, usually if they were refluxers as babies/young toddlers, although it very well may not be the problem with him, just that he doesn't like an empty stomach.
By doing that "dream feed" you avoid him waking and still preserve a longer stretch for sleep. Some moms have found success by watering down the milk till they found they don't have to offer the bottle after a couple of week. I think you should do whatever suits you both best.
BTW i've tried to skip the bottle and he still wakes around 7am cranky and hungry and that is the start of the day for us (and not a friendly day i must add), so im sort of a slave for that, but I don't mind as long as he sleeps just what he needs.
Good luck!
