You can if you edit the boot menu, or if you are not comfortable with that install grub-customizer which is a GUI program that makes it easy to do, and edit back when the newer kernel gets updated again.
sudo apt-get install grub-customizer
As I mentioned earlier in the post that is what I did with my wife's laptop when it happened to her. I also had to do it two other times when I had a Broacom WIFI card, that the kernel didn't support, then the next one worked.