Testing journal approval framework, administrator role is self approving

I have logged this case but the person handling my case has not responded in over a week so I thought I would log this question here.  We do not have supervisors approving journals.  We have a matrix of people that are subject matter experts that approve each others journals.  We are using the doc type field on the journal for a field where they enter the userid of the person who should approve their journal.  There are four people in the General Ledger group that are involved in the closing.  We have identified that they should be the Administrators