Taylor Hicks, complete with gray hair and bizarre white guy dance moves that you could probably see by a random drunkard at any local bar or tavern, is your next "American Idol."

Oh shoot, I forgot to include the extensive amounts of delays like "find out after the break" that are commonly used by "Idol" host Ryan Seacrest on nearly every "Idol" telecast. My bad. Oh well.

Most who follow the series probably are scratching their heads trying to figure out how I know that Hicks is the winner of tonight's "Idol" finale. Do I have an insider? Am I an employee of FOX who will likely be fired for declaring the winner before the anticipated finale tonight?

Nope.

Sorry, dear readers, there is not a cool, exciting story behind how I got this information. It's just good, 'ole reliable DialIdol. RUnderground readers may recall an article I wrote April 18th regarding DialIdol entitled "DialIdol's Credibility on the Line" about how it would be important that the little-known webpage that predicts who will be voted off each week gets its predictions right in the latter moments of the "Idol" season. At the time of writing that article, contestant Bucky Covington was the recent "Idol" outcast leaving seven contestants - Hicks, Katherine McPhee, Kellie Pickler, Chris Daughtry, Ace Young, Elliott Yamin and Paris Bennett.

Over the next six weeks, Young, Pickler, Bennett, Daughtry and Yamin were sent packing. Some of those exits shocked both fans and judges, the most of which was the outcasting of Daughtry, who many had tabbed to be the favorite to win it all. And here's something that not many know: DialIdol correctly predicted each of those six oustings.

Which is why their prediction that Hicks will be named the winner tonight looks pretty good. Through 22 eliminations since the show trimmed down the contestants to 24, DialIdol has been correct 86 percent of the time. This includes the shocking exits of Daughtry and Mandisa a week before the Covington ousting.

The margin of error won't even come into play as it had in previous weeks, where DialIdol was forced to tag two singers as possible oustings. Hicks' DialIdol score is 45.583 while McPhee's is 37.097 with the margin of error being less than two points.

Further review of the DialIdol's numbers reveals the busy percentages of the three phone lines for each singer clearly favors Hicks as the winner. The Alabama-based Hicks averaged a percent of 82 while McPhee averaged a percent of 66.

And so, the winner is Hicks. And no, it is not because the folks who wrote McPhee's song created one of "Idol's" worst original songs ever while Hicks was given a pretty good song and made it even better. It's a numbers game and the numbers are pretty clear.

Mark it down and remember - you heard it here first.