Luke Surber is an underdog.
Surber, Oklahoma State’s redshirt freshman heavyweight, will battle Olympic gold medalist Gable Steveson of Minnesota in just Surber’s second career start. Steveson, who will be making his first start of his senior year, is looking to begin a national title defense while Surber, fresh off a victory at the Stanford dual, is seeing the match as just another on the schedule.
“Nothing’s gonna change. I’m just gonna go out there and wrestle as hard as I can and I’m gonna compete,” Surber said. “I’m not gonna back down. I mean, I know he’s good, but I’m good too.