Paul Oberjuerge: Prom Kings, Queens

Prom Kings

1. Chad Hedrick. Some are offended by his in-your-face personality, but the straight-talkin' Texan with Brokeback Mountain-good looks and "starting quarterback" feel about him is sensitive enough to cry (before he won the speedskating 5,000 meter gold).

2. Seth Wescott. He's getting old for the snowboarder gig, but he's got that maturity thing the senior chicks dig. Without being too uptight.

3. Shaun "The Flying Tomato" White. He's basically a dorky underclassmen with all that bad/rad red hair, but his status as numero uno in halfpipe makes him way popular with the student bodies.

4. Denis Petukhov. Sort of a darkhorse candidate because not all the kids know the new guy. But he's blond and handsome, and that Russian accent is charming. He's light on his feet (an ice dancer) and SO romantic that girls want to take him home to mom. (Oops. His partner, Melissa Gregory, already did.)

5. Joey Cheek. Rugged, beefcakey long-tracker who skates rapidly and thinks globally. After smoking the field in the 500-meter sprint, he promised to give his $25,000 for winning a gold to starving kids in the African country of Chad. Honest.

6. Jeremy Bloom. OK, he didn't win anything, but he's got that classic square-jawed thing going on and is the hunkiest guy on the moguls hill. The only skier in Italy with a neck wider than his head. That's because he's getting ready for a tryout with the NFL.

7. Ted Ligety. He was the JV kid nobody noticed (he was a lowly course-grooming "forerunner" at Salt Lake in 2002) till he won the downhill combined gold. Now the girls are much more interested in the blond guy with the big smile.

8. Ben Agosto. He's a little exotic, and a bit short, but you almost have to be for ice-dancing. And you know he's be a great partner at the Sock Hop.

9. Rick DiPietro. OK, he's a backup goaltender on the hockey team, but with a GQ mug like that he doesn't need to be a star. He doesn't even need to speak.

10. Apolo Anton Ohno. He was WAY popular as a freshman, but he's more talk than results lately. He's kinda so-five-minutes-ago. But he's still cute.

Prom Queens

1. Sasha Cohen. Does she ever have a bad hair day? Most of the boys are so intimidated by her that they won't even try to talk to her. But they'll vote for her, you bet.

2. Gretchen Bleier. Since a lot of the guys look at espn.com, and saw the pictures of Gretchen getting, uh, out from under that ski suit ... and checked out those six-pack abs ... they like her fine, even if it was silver she won in halfpipe.

3. Tanith Belbin. She's Canadian, so she's exotic. She's an ice-dancer, so she dresses well. Another intimidating girl, but the boys admire her from afar.

4. Lindsay Jacobellis. OK, she goofed when she did that grab at the end of the snowboardcross, but look at that face! And maybe she needs some comforting right now by being named Prom Queen.

5. Emily Hughes. She's still in high school, so she really COULD be a prom queen. Cute as a button.

6. Krissy Wendell. She looks scary in her hockey suit, but she cleans up really well, and she can hang with the guys, which they always dig.

7. Allison Baver. She's, like, one of the really cute cheerleader girls. (She was, in real life.) We'll vote for this short-tracker, even if everybody knows she's Apolo's girl.

8. Kimmie Meissner. OK, the boys have a thing for figure skaters. But she's only 16, and her dad will be waiting for you with a baseball bat if you don't get her home by 9. But that doesn't mean she can't be Prom Queen.

9. Johnny Weir. He's gotta be in here somewhere. He accessorizes like no one in the Athletes Village, his complexion is to die for ... and you can't really put him on the same list with Chad Hedrick and Jeremy Bloom, can you?

10. Cassandra OR Jamie Johnson. The guys can never settle the argument over which curling sister is cuter. Can't we vote them both on?