All conference for the midwest conference works like this (or doesn't work).  Each coach puts up as many players as he wants.  The coaches vote before they ever get to the conference meeting.  The top vote getter is 1st team, the 2nd highest vote getter is 2nd team, the 3rd highest vote getter is 3rd team.  Honorable mentions are handed out like this.  Every coach can vote for his own player, a player must get at least 1 more vote to be honorable mention.  The problem with this format is for example...you could have 1 player be unaanimous 1st team named on 10 ballots, 2nd team could be named on 8 or 9 ballots, 3rd team could be named on 7 ballots and the honorable mentions could have anywhere between 6 and 2 votes.  That is a pretty big range for honorable mentions