"I am proud to be one of 18 million who stand with Hillary Clinton," 18-year-old Apollo Pazell said from the podium, the only Utahn to speak from the main stage this week.

The nomination of Clinton was part of a well-scripted dance, in which both Obama and Clinton were nominated, although by the end of Wednesday's ceremonies, it will be Obama who will receive the party's nomination.

Pazell was picked to tell his story after a small meeting with Clinton early Tuesday morning, he said, and considers the selection an great honor.

He said that he supports Clinton because his great-grandmother, who is 89 and a breast cancer survivor, recently lost her health insurance.

"I see our broken health care system, an experience shared by too many citizens," said Pazell, arguing Clinton could best fix the problem.

He worked for Clinton during the primary season doing get-out-the-vote work in rural Iowa and running the campaign's Wendover, Nev., caucus efforts.

He is the youngest Clinton delegate at the convention, and is devout to Clinton's cause.

Wednesday morning, he and eight other Utah delegates formally cast their votes for Clinton, marking the box under the New York senator's name and signing the sheet that will be tallied at the national convention, even though Clinton, later in the day, formally released her delegates to support Obama.

"I am here to release you as my delegates," she told her supporters at a gathering Wednesday afternoon.

Sen. Barack Obama, who will accept the presidential nomination tomorrow, received 20 delegate votes, having won the Utah primary.

"We're all going to cheer and scream for Barack Obama, but as a salute to Senator Clinton's campaign, and the reason we are here is because of her . . . we felt it was right if we vote for her and do anything we can to honor her contribution," said Joe Hatch, a Salt Lake County Councilman and Clinton whip.

"I felt my vote clearly was a symbolic recognition that it was a hard fought race, a tribute to someone who . . . I would like to see in the Oval Office in January," said Salt Lake County Councilwoman Jenny Wilson, a Clinton delegate. "We have another very good option."

The Clinton votes likely will not matter this evening, however.

Hatch said that the plan, at this point, is to let a handful of states do the traditional casting of votes during the roll call on the convention floor, then the chairman of the convention will recognize New York's delegation, and Clinton will make a motion to grant her delegates to Obama and recognize him as the nominee.

-- The Associated Press contributed to this report