NorthJersey.com North Jersey Wrestler of the Week: How Voting Works & How to Win

What the North Jersey Wrestler of the Week is and who runs it

The North Jersey Wrestler of the Week is a recurring fan vote published by NorthJersey.com, the news site covering northern New Jersey. It sits inside the publisher's high school sports coverage, where its Varsity Aces desk reports on wrestling across the region each winter. The ballot asks a single question, who should be the North Jersey Wrestler of the Week, and readers answer it by choosing among a short list of nominated athletes.

Crowdsignal, the polling service behind the poll.fm domain, hosts the vote. That makes the mechanics simple and familiar: a web page with one question, a list of radio-button options and a running tally. The confirmed ballot for the series lives at poll.fm, and each weekly round during the season replaces the last one.

Geographically the program covers the North Jersey region of New Jersey, the northern part of the state where the publisher's coverage is concentrated. It is not a statewide award and not a national ranking; the nominee pool comes from the wrestling programs the desk covers week to week.

For a supporter, the practical picture is this: a free public vote, one question, a fresh nominee list most weeks of the wrestling season, and results displayed as percentages on the same page once the tally starts moving. The table below sets the confirmed facts about the program side by side.

The dated record: which seasons ran and what the publisher has not printed

Three seasons of the Wrestler of the Week are confirmed: 2022, 2023 and 2025. Those years come from the series' ballots on poll.fm, which were dated across that span. The gap between 2023 and 2025 is simply what the ballot history shows; the publisher has not published a season-by-season archive that would explain whether every intervening winter carried a full run of weekly polls.

Within each season, ballot activity falls between December and March. That window matches the New Jersey high school wrestling calendar, where dual meets and county and state tournaments fill the winter months. The series is weekly in shape: a new question, a new nominee list and a fresh poll.fm ballot appear roughly every week while the sport is in season.

What the publisher has not printed is just as relevant for anyone planning around this ballot. No exact open or close date for any individual weekly round appears ahead of time, and no nomination calendar is posted; confirm on the live ballot each cycle. The ballot page also carries no published per-reader vote limit, no daily return rule and no eligibility text for nominees.

One more practical note on timing: because each weekly poll closes after its round, the voting URL for the series points to the latest ballot. When that round ends, the page keeps the final standings visible but stops accepting votes, and the next week's link takes over as the live one.

How a supporter votes on the current ballot

Voting takes under a minute. A supporter opens the live poll.fm ballot, reads the list of nominated wrestlers, selects one and submits. The Crowdsignal form accepts a single choice per submission, and the page then shows the percentage tally for every nominee, so a voter immediately sees where their pick stands.

The nominee list is the part that changes weekly. The publisher's sports desk selects wrestlers from North Jersey programs based on recent performances, and the ballot presents them by name with no additional context required from the voter. There is no write-in box, no login and no account creation; any reader who reaches the page can vote without signing in.

If a ballot has closed, the same URL still works but shows final standings instead of an active form. The leading nominees' shares appear as percentages, with the rest of the field listed beneath. That closed-page view is how past weeks remain visible after their rounds end.

Two small technical notes from the publisher's own coverage: if the poll does not render, refreshing the link usually restores it, and readers who have trouble can reach the coverage through the publisher's Varsity Aces app or the main site. Neither workaround changes the vote itself.

Because there is no published rule on repeat voting, anyone hoping to vote repeatedly within a single week has no stated limit to rely on. The honest reading is that the ballot page is silent on the question, and whatever restriction applies is enforced by the platform rather than announced in text.

How this ballot sits beside its New Jersey neighbours

New Jersey has an unusually crowded field of public-vote programs, and the Wrestler of the Week occupies a distinct corner of it. Most of the state's well-known ballots are broad best-of contests run over long windows: the Bergen Community's Choice Awards and the Best of New Jersey program both ask readers to choose among businesses across many categories, and the Asbury Park Press Readers' Choice does similar work at the shore.

This ballot is different in three ways. First, it covers a single sport rather than a category roster, so its audience is wrestling families, teammates and school communities rather than general consumers. Second, it recurs weekly inside a December to March season instead of running one long annual window, which means momentum has to be rebuilt every seven days. Third, it is hosted on Crowdsignal's poll.fm rather than a dedicated contest platform, keeping the form to one question and one click.

For a nominee's supporters, that shape changes the playbook. A business in the Bergen & Morris Top Dentists vote can campaign for weeks; a wrestler's window may be a few days. Neighbours such as the Best of Jersey Shore Contest and the Jersey Bites Monmouth County Readers' Choice sit between those extremes, but none of them matches the weekly rhythm of this poll.