Everyone in the Democratic Party appears to want to resolve how to include Michigan and Florida delegates at the national convention in August, but few can agree on what the solution should be and no one seems to want to pay for it.

Michigan and Florida were stripped of their combined 313 delegates by the DNC when the states moved their primaries ahead of Feb. 5 , Super Tuesday. Both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton -- as well as the other candidates who had been competing before the Jan. 15 and Jan. 29 primaries respectively -- agreed not to campaign in those states. Clinton won both contests, although Obama's name was not on the ballot in Michigan.

But nobody expected the nomination process to be this close or last this long, and now many have started to complain that to exclude Michigan and Florida would be to deny the states' voters of their right to elect a candidate.

"I think that Senator Obama made a decision to take his name off of the ballot, but nobody ... including you, the pundits, Governor Dean, the candidates or the states -- thought we would be where we are right now," Democratic National Committee member and Michigan superdelegate Debbie Dingell said on "FOX News Sunday."

Now, the options being weighed on how to seat Michigan and Florida's delegates range from partial primary do-overs to a 50-50 split of the vote to a caucus in the states. For many, the best solution appears to be an Internet or mail-in vote.

"It's comprehensive. You get to vote if you're in Iraq or in a nursing home. It's not a bad way to do this. Oregon does their general elections by vote by mails. So it's a good way -- and it's a great party-building exercise because then you know who's active and who votes and so forth," said Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean on CBS' "Face the Nation" on Sunday.

"The one possibility would be some kind of a mail-in caucus," said a less enthusiastic Michigan Sen. Carl Levin said on ABC's "This Week." "But there's some real problems with that, too. Not just cost, but the security issue. How do you make sure that hundreds of thousands, perhaps a million or more ballots can be properly counted and that duplicate ballots can be avoided?"

A re-vote in Michigan would cost approximately $8 million to $12 million. In Florida, projections are it would cost $24 million for a new primary, even though the original primary only cost $18 million. A caucus would cost about $4 million. A mail-in vote would be about $8 million, according to Florida Sen. Bill Nelson, a Clinton backer who unsuccessfully sued the DNC to prevent it from instituting the penalty.

The states don't want to pay the money it would take for a new primary and neither candidate wants a solution that might give the other an advantage.

The state parties can raise "soft money," or unlimited and unregulated money from big Democratic donors, to pay for the new election, but many of those donors have already chosen sides in this contest and before they open their wallets, they would look for their candidate to signal their preference.

"Since Governor Dean has said he's not going to do it in the DNC, the Florida Democratic Party's going to have to go out and raise the money," Nelson said.

"We've heard offers from people outside of the state, and we would welcome those people showing us how we could raise money for some alternative. It is not -- the resources are not there inside the state," Dingell said of Michigan's limitations.

The only hard deadline for resolving the issue is the Democratic convention in August, but Dean says a solution really needs to be in place by early June, shortly after the rest of the states have voted. Dean says whatever the solution the states need to put the plan on the table first, then take them to the campaigns.

"The states have got to come before the DNC with a plan, or else decide to appeal their exclusion to the credentials committee. When they make those decisions, then we're going to be able to go to the campaigns and have some serious discussions about how we can negotiate this out," Dean said.

That's not working for some officials, including superdelegate and Clinton campaign national co-chairwoman Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who is from Florida.

"Both elected and party leadership should be coming together to develop a solution," said Wasserman-Schultz. "I heard Chairman Dean on national news today saying that he wants to make sure that the delegations are seated. Well, he needs to join us in trying to come up with a solution not just wait till we present one and then he can say 'yay' or 'nay.'"

If all else fails, Dean said a ruling could be made by the credentials committee during the convention.

"They can do a lot of things at the credentials committee. I think it's very unlikely that Florida and Michigan, given how close this race is, are going to be seated as is. But everybody's going to work very hard to find a compromise within the rules that's fair to both campaigns that will allow Florida and Michigan in the end to be seated," he said.