On November 13, a sloppy sportswriter was asked to remove himself from his place of residence. That request came from his roommate.
With nowhere else to go, he and his fellow slobs appeared in what we now know as Wisconsin. They built a capital and named it after the sportswriter, Oscar Madison.
The rest of the state was named after his fellow evicted slobs: Joe Milwaukee, Jack Greenbay, Angus Eauclaire, Horace Wausau, Stephen Spoint, Michael Fondulac, ...