What is the cleveland.com senior boys wrestler poll?
The programme gathers its wrestling ballots under a shared title, Cleveland.com Best Boys Wrestlers in Northeast Ohio, and the sheet behind the voting address narrows the question to seniors: "Who is the best senior boys wrestler in NE Ohio?" The organizer is cleveland.com, the Northeast Ohio newsroom that publishes under The Plain Dealer name within Advance Local. Its high school sports desk throws the question open to readers rather than to a coaches panel or a rankings committee, which places the ballot squarely in the best-of tradition of reader polls, with high school wrestling as the subject.
Hosting rests with Crowdsignal, the platform behind poll.fm addresses, and the senior sheet sits at https://poll.fm/13296267. Every answer pairs a wrestler's weight class with his school, so marking a box praises a young athlete and the program that trained him in the same click. Nominations for the present sheet reach well past a single suburb: school communities tied to Mentor, Perry, Hudson, Medina, Streetsboro and North Royalton all surface in the option list, giving the ballot a genuinely regional footprint across Northeast Ohio.
Why the class polls framing matters
The parenthetical in the programme title, class polls, signals that the publisher splits the topic rather than crowding every grade onto a single sheet. The address above holds the senior boys edition; how companion sheets for other classes are arranged goes unstated by the organizer.
| Item | Detail |
|---|
| Organizer | cleveland.com (The Plain Dealer; Advance Local) |
| Ballot host | Crowdsignal (poll.fm) |
| Voting address | https://poll.fm/13296267 |
| Coverage area | Northeast Ohio |
| Subject | Senior boys high school wrestling |
| Format | Public vote with percentage standings |
Which editions ran, and when does the current window shut?
Confirmed editions of the wrestling poll ran in 2023 and 2024, and both of those sheets were live in February, per the dating carried on the poll series. The cycle now posted breaks from that late-winter pattern: the article feeding the present ballot states, "The voting below will stay open until Monday, January 12, at 10 p.m." That puts the current close just past the holidays, early in January, rather than at a month's end.
Key fact: the Monday, January 12, 10 p.m. close is the only firm date printed for this cycle; every other timing detail waits on the publisher.
Beyond that deadline the schedule goes quiet. The ballot names no opening day for the round in progress, and the poll host lists no stage dates for the market. Neither the complete set of class sheets nor any per-supporter voting rule appears on the page; confirm on the live ballot each cycle. The organizer has also stayed silent on whether a further edition follows the present one, so supporters hoping to vote again next winter should watch cleveland.com's high school sports coverage rather than assume a return.
| Stage | Window | Notes |
|---|
| Earlier editions | 2023 and 2024 | Both ballots live in February |
| Current cycle | Closes Monday, January 12 at 10 p.m. | Printed above the ballot |
| Following edition | Not yet announced | Watch the publisher's high school sports desk |
How does a reader vote in the senior wrestler poll?
Voting asks for little effort. The page at the voting address opens straight onto the question, and beneath it each option lists a weight class beside a school name. A supporter marks the entry he favors and submits; Crowdsignal counts the choice and refreshes the visible tally. There is no bracket to advance through and no round structure on the senior sheet, just a straight single-question vote that stays open until the printed close.
Because the sheet is public, the standings are not hidden away until a winner emerges. When the last edition ended, the ballot displayed each leading entry's percentage next to its raw count, which tells a latecomer exactly how far behind a favored wrestler sits.
The options and the final standings
The table below collects the pairings the senior sheet presented, along with the shares shown once voting ended.
| Weight class | School | Share | Votes |
|---|
| 215 | St. Edward | 19% | 70 |
| 150 | Wadsworth | 14% | 50 |
| 126 | Perry | 12% | 45 |
| 138 | St. Edward | - | - |
| 144 | St. Edward | - | - |
| 132 | Mentor | - | - |
| 132 | Walsh Jesuit | - | - |
| 165 | Highland | - | - |
Reader tip: with both a percentage and a raw count on screen, a backer can judge whether a lead is comfortable or fragile before deciding how hard to push in the final stretch.
St. Edward's depth stands out: the school accounts for several of the listed pairings, including the top share at 215 pounds.
How does this ballot differ from other Ohio fan votes?
Ohio's reader-vote lineup on this site leans toward commerce and civic pride.
Best of Ohio casts a wide net across the state's favorite businesses, while
Best in Ohio Business Awards keeps the focus corporate. City publications run their own editions:
Best of Cincinnati serves that city's readers, and
CBUS Top Picks Community Choice Awards does the same for Columbus. Radio and local pride add flavor, from
97.1 The Fan Pizza Madness Columbus, a station-built bracket, to the
Akron Community's Choice Awards.
Against that backdrop the senior wrestler ballot looks almost contrarian. Its subject is scholastic athletics rather than restaurants, salons or contractors. Its electorate is made up of teammates, parents and alumni scattered across Northeast Ohio instead of a single metro consumer base. Its structure splits by class rather than stacking many categories on one long form. And its stakes are bragging rights inside a wrestling community, which changes how people promote it: a booster club shares the link through team group chats, not through a chamber of commerce newsletter.
For anyone weighing Ohio fan votes side by side, the practical takeaway is that tactics transfer imperfectly. Methods built for a citywide business survey, where merchants court customers for weeks, fit awkwardly on a sheet that asks a school community to show up for a single senior.
How can a wrestler's backers add support inside this poll?
The ballot's shape rewards concentration. Since the senior sheet poses a single question with visible percentages, every reminder should point at the same address and ask for the same click before the Monday, January 12 close. Team parents, booster clubs and alumni groups can carry the link through group chats and social posts, always naming the weight class so supporters know which pairing to mark.
The publisher prints no rule covering outside voting assistance on the senior sheet, so a family weighing paid help has no published boundary to consult. General mechanics and expectations for award-style ballots are laid out in
our award votes guide, and wider organic tactics live in
the guide to earning more votes online. Whatever route a camp chooses, the visible tally settles the argument: standings move only when new voters arrive.
