How to link top and side navigation in wordpress?

I have following navigation structure, which i want to implement in wordpress:

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(Home / About / news / Contact) are in top navigation, whereas all sub links are in sidebar.

How can i create this type of navigation in wordpress. i.e. How can i display first level navigation in header and second level navigation in sidebar.

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  1. I found these plugins helpful:

    Simple Section Navigation
    http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/simple-section-navigation/

    It allowed me to create the side nav based on the hierarchy of the pages and their children.

    I wanted a bit more control though because I didn’t want some of the parents to have their own page … just a heading for their children. So instead, I’m using this plugin (for the Genesis Framework).

    Genesis Simple Sidebars
    http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/genesis-simple-sidebars/

    This allows me to create as many sidebars as I want and add custom menus to those. I’m new to this, so maybe I’m taking a long route, but so far it seems to be doing what I want it to.