Who's playing themselves off the Opening Day roster

Grady Little said in an interview there were virtually no guarantees as to the pitching spots and the managers will pick the best team with the chance to win for the Opening Day roster.

Out of the current players with the big league club, the following, to me, are playing themselves off the Apirl 1 roster (in the order of least probability to stick around):

1. Hong-Chi Kuo - mostly due to shoulder trouble, wildness and inability to relief effectively
2. Elmer Dessens - just too many long-relief candidates better suited than himself to that role (Mays, Mark Hendrickson) or simply younger and more promising in the long run (Chad Billingsley)
3. Joe Mays - there must have been one more demotion / release / injury apart from Kuo and Dessens for him to make the roster.

In the struggle for the incumbent fifth starter position, I think Brett Tomko has just got a tad of a lead over Hendrickson. Even though, purely because Billingsley was tentatively moved to the bullpen for the start of the season.

Had it been up to me, the Dodgers starting rotation now would be: Derek Lowe, Jason Schmidt, Billingsley, Brad Penny, Randy Wolf. Period. No Hand-riggs, no Bombko. Period. But that's just me...