Hello to all Hibernate gurus!

My simple question in short: how to load name-value pairs from DB (no associations to any other table(s)!) to a java.util.Map property of an object.
In more detail:
I have a simple class for holding application configuration with a Map of parameters where key and value are Strings:
public class Configuration {
private Map params; // key and value are of String type
// getter and setter go here
}

I'd like to load params from DB table
create table Config (
Name varchar(64) PRIMARY KEY,
Value varchar(255) NOT NULL);

I know I can create an Entity class e.g. ConfigParam with String properties name and value, map it to Config table and load a collection of such objects
List<ConfigParam> params = session.createQuery("from ConfigParam").list()

But is there a way to load such collection directly to a java.util.Map property of an object?