“You know, I am not even sure what a wolverine is in the first place.”
The’re probably good to eat, roasted with buckeyes.
A wolverine is an animal, that burrows into the soil. Michigan Wolverines and Wisconsin Badgers are not really based on the animal, but that earlier settlers dug into the ground to form a place of residence. Mining was part of the the states early finding. Now think of it would you want to have a mascot for your state a tree or an animal. Wisconsin Badgers? Michigan Wolverines? Minnesota Gophers? and Ohio State Buckeyes? A state with an animal mascot other than gophers would make a state sound tough, but the buckeyes are just a form of chestnut.