Any wisdom on this sort of situation?

[ViperAce]

I'm average chip stack with about 25,000 in chips, 10 people left in the tournament and when it gets to 9 its final table (top 6 get paid) . Anyway, I get A,K unsuited and raise to 6,000 (blinds are 1,000 - 2,000) everyone folds to the monster chip stack who has Q,Q. He re-raises to 20,000 - in essence putting me all-in. Do I fold and wait for the smaller chip stacks to fade out or do I take the risk (i figured it was a 50/50 race anyway) and go for the chip lead going into the final table?

I did actually take the risk, no ace or king came up. I did have 15 outs at the turn but nothing hit at the river [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]. damn.

thanks for any info, advice, wisdom in advance.