The APP's Shore Conference Wrestler of the Week: How Voting Works & How to Win

What is the APP's Shore Conference Wrestler of the Week?

The APP's Shore Conference Wrestler of the Week is a weekly honor ballot for New Jersey high school wrestling. It is run by the Asbury Park Press, the Gannett newspaper whose masthead carries the Asbury Park name, and it asks readers who follow the paper's winter wrestling reporting to pick the standout wrestler of the week across Shore Conference competition. Where the publisher's other reader votes rank businesses and services, this one turns a spotlight on individual wrestlers through the winter season.

The vote itself is a Crowdsignal poll, reached through poll.fm. The live round carries the title Who is the APP's Shore Conference Week 10 Wrestler of the Week and sits at poll.fm/16638423, the address printed in this guide's facts table below. Each ballot is a single-question page, so a visitor lands straight on the choice between nominees with nothing else to fill in.

Quick facts

What is the edition history of the APP's wrestler of the week vote?

Only one edition of the program is confirmed so far, the 2026 season. Its voting activity falls between January and February of that year, tracking the winter wrestling calendar, and the poll.fm series behind it produced successive weekly ballots across that span. The Week 10 label on the live ballot points to earlier weekly rounds inside the same season, with Week 10 the newest of them.

Around the question itself, the ballot page stays spare. It prints no opening or closing hour for the Week 10 round, no nomination procedure, and no statement about who may take part, how often one supporter may vote, or whether a sign-in is required. There is no category roster to walk through either, because the whole ballot is the single wrestler question rather than a multi-category survey.

What that means in practice is simple: the January-to-February stretch is the stretch to watch, each week brings its own nominees on its own poll.fm page, and the hours of any given round belong to that round's page.

How does a supporter vote in the Week 10 wrestler poll?

Everything happens on the ballot page itself. A supporter opens the Week 10 address at poll.fm/16638423, reads the question, and scans the nominee list, where every wrestler is printed beside his school. Programs named on this round include Freehold Borough, Long Branch, Marlboro, Ocean, Point Pleasant Beach and Point Pleasant Borough, a spread that reaches across Shore Conference membership.

Casting the vote is a single action: mark the option beside the chosen wrestler and press the poll's vote control. The page involves no entry form, no fee and no attendance requirement, because the paper has already assembled the nominees; the reader's only job is the pick.

Voting from a phone

No download or app install stands between a supporter and the Week 10 round: poll.fm serves the question and the nominee list as one browser page, so a phone shows exactly what a laptop shows and both the selection and the submission happen on that single screen. Because a fresh nominee list takes over every week, a vote cast this week does not roll into the next round; keeping a wrestler in the running means returning for each new ballot through the January-February season.

How does this ballot compare with other New Jersey reader votes?

Garden State readers have plenty of reader ballots competing for attention, yet the wrestler of the week vote behaves differently from every neighbour on the shelf. The same publisher also operates the Asbury Park Press Readers' Choice, a broad best-of exercise centered on local businesses rather than athletes. County-level business voting continues in the Best of Bergen Community's Choice Awards and the Bergen & Morris Top Dentists list, while the Best of Jersey Shore Contest, Best of New Jersey and Jersey Bites Monmouth County Readers' Choice cover consumer and food categories at statewide or county scale.

Set against those, this program is narrower and quicker: a single sport, a single question, a turnaround measured in days, and a season boxed into the January-February wrestling stretch. A best-of business ballot builds toward its judging period for months and evaluates year-round establishments; the wrestler poll restarts its candidate list every week and hands the weekly honor to whichever nominee the readers lift in that round alone.

Why the weekly shape matters

That weekly shape is also what separates it from a one-shot competition: momentum is perishable, and support has to be rebuilt with each fresh list of nominees rather than banked once and left alone.

How can a wrestling community grow support during the season?

Weekly honors reward steady communities more than single bursts. Because every round resets the nominees, the practical playbook for a wrestler's backers is straightforward: circulate the exact poll.fm address for the live week, send reminders while the round is still young instead of waiting until its closing stretch, and lean on the networks a school already has, from teammates' families to the booster crowd. No outside-help guidance is printed beside the Week 10 question, so anyone organizing a larger push should read the live round first and follow whatever instructions it carries.

Broad techniques for widening a fan vote's reach are collected on the get more votes online guide, and readers weighing paid support for an award-style ballot can review the award vote overview before deciding anything.