Wisconsin is famous for its cheesehead sports fans. On Sunday, the state rocked its locks claimed a different kind of hair-raising distinction.
Two of the winners from the 2022 USA Mullet Championships hail from the Badger State. Emmitt Bailey, 8, of Menomonie, won the kids division, while Cayden Kershaw, of Wausau, placed first in the teen division, WITI-TV reported.
On, Wisconsin!
Kevin Begola, president of the USA Mullet Championship, told “Today” before Sunday’s announcement that he was “blown away” by the precision of this year’s younger contestants.
Bailey, known as “Mullet Boy,” received 9,896 votes to take the kids division, surging from second place to take the title, WMTV reported.
Epic Orta of La Joya, Texas, finished second with 8,404 votes, and William Dale Ramsey of Pataskala, Ohio, placed third with 4,058 votes.
“A great mullet starts right behind the ear,” Begola told “Today.” “If you shave it too far back, it almost becomes a mohawk.
“A good mullet has that nice short front and if you were to tuck all the hair in the back or put it in a ponytail, you wouldn’t even see it,” Begola added. “You would think the person was clean cut.”
Bailey’s father, Eric Bailey, told KMSP-TV before the polling closed on Friday, that the competition was “cool.”
“I think it’s cool. I really do,” Eric Bailey told the television station. “Some of the coolest people in the world, athletes and rock stars, they have mullets, so I mean, it’s pretty cool.”
Kershaw won the teens division with 3,215 votes.
Fisher Monds, a 15-year-old from Hilliard, Florida, finished second, falling short of the title by 19 votes.
Another Wisconsin teen, Max Weihbrecht of De Pere, placed third with 1,521 votes.
The men’s division mullet championship is open for submissions. If more than 500 applications are received, there will be an elimination round offline prior to the first-round vote on Facebook, which will held the weekend of Sept. 12-14. There will then be a second-round vote, also on Facebook, of the top 100 mullets between Sept. 19-21.
A final-round vote will be held on a date yet to be determined.
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