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The two-month NFL Draft season, which seems to get longer and more ridiculous every year, mercifully peaks tonight in midtown Manhattan, when commissioner Roger Goodell will step to the podium at Radio City Music Hall shortly after 8 Eastern to announce Andrew Luck as the first pick in the 77th league draft.

"I'm really ready for this to happen," Ryan Tannehill said over breakfast in Manhattan this morning. "I'm ready for the media hoopla to be over, all the debate, all the arguing you see on TV. We're football players. This whole experience has been fun, but I can't wait to get this over and play the game."

There will be drama; we just don't know what it is yet. But it figures to center around these draft positions, teams or players:

The Vikings, at 3. Minnesota has more holes to fill than a potholed St. Paul street after a brutal winter. GM Rick Spielman has been trying to drum up interest in the pick so he can get multiple choices in the first two rounds, but most teams below him have the same feeling he does: This draft is 75 picks deep with potential year-one rookie starters, and I'm hearing no strong evidence that any team is inclined to climb this high to blow it all on one player.

The one exception here, at No. 4 with Cleveland, could be Alabama running back Trent Richardson. But I look for Minnesota to stay put, ignore the bleatings of people like me who say the Vikes should take a corner here, and draft USC tackle Matt Kalil. Then the Vikes could pick a big corner like Montana's Trumaine Johnson with the 35th overall pick, to match up with the Calvin Johnsons and Jordy Nelsons of the NFC North.

Read more: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2012/writers/peter_king/04/26/nfl.draft/index.html#ixzz1tAFGTJsD