You can always just repeat over options in the html and not use data-ng-options. I've made a fiddle that does what you want: http://jsfiddle.net/5MQ9L/
<select ng-model="selected">
<option value="{{item.id}}" ng-repeat="(i,item) in items"> {{item.name}}
</option>
</select>
This way you can set the values directly with scoped vals.
Hope this helped!