Could I have avoided busting out here?

Okay me and my two friends played in a little three man tourney, winner take all. Start with 50 chips, blinds are 1/2 and go up every 20 mins. On the first hand I'm in the SB and dealt QTo, and just limp. Button folded before me, and BB checks. Flop comes QQ9 rainbow. I check, hoping to trap, and he checks. Turn is a an Ace. We both check. River is a 6. I min bet, he min raises me and I reraise 10 more. He pushes. Now its on me.
So there are no straight possibilities and no flush possibilities on the board. I figure the only hand I have to be concerned with is Q9 or Q6 and the odds of that are very very slim, so I basically ruled it out. If he had rockets, he would've bet the flop, fearing the queen. With AQ, 99, or 66, KQ, or QJ he would've raised preflop (I have played with him before and I am pretty certain of this). I put him on a weaker Queen, in which case I would have him outkicked. I called, and he had Q9.
Now was there any way I could reasonably lay this down or were we just destined to collide in this hand? Thx.

It's hard to tell what he was pushing on, because you slow played the queens. You had to think he was putting you on something other than queens after you slow played them. If you bet out on the flop queens, and then he reraises you, it's obvious he has nuts.

The problem in this hand was the pot size. You had no choice but to slow play to build it up to something worth having.

Nevertheless, I might have cut my losses when he pushed all in after a min reraise and then your 10x raise. You have to feel that your beat there. If he knows enough to raise his boss hands preflop, then he also knew he had you beat when he triple pushed you. You have to have a big pair of bongos to triple raise when you don't have the monster. I would have folded to the all in. That's just me.

Nothing you could do. Don't sweat it.

3 handed correct?

got to play the pre flop more aggressive. Raise it. Other than that its very tough to get away from trip quuens when he flops the nuts against you.

That hand, you were pretty much destined to lose all your chips. But I do think you played it badly. Too much slowplay. Unless you flopped something near-invulnerable, there's no reason to be that cute with it.