Top Michigan Democrats yesterday rebelled against a plan to seat just half of the state’s delegates, demanding that the national party seat them all – and give a majority to Hillary Rodham Clinton.

The plea to the Democratic National Committee’s Rules and Bylaws Committee from four prominent pols, including uncommitted Sen. Carl Levin, comes amid controversy over how to represent Michigan and Florida at the August convention.

The 30-member rules panel meets tomorrow to decide what to do about the two states, which were stripped of their delegates for moving up their primaries on the calendar against DNC rules.

Party lawyers, in a 38-page memo to the committee, said it “legally” can’t restore more than half of the stripped delegates because that’s an automatic punishment for the calendar violation.

The Michigan Democrats said the rules committee ought to stick to a compromise measure. Under that plan, Clinton would have 69 pledged delegates and Obama 59.

But another Michigan DNC member, Clinton backer Joel Ferguson, broke with state leaders and said that plan is “fatally flawed.”

Meanwhile, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said he expects the nomination to be settled shortly after voting ends next Tuesday and Obama will probably have enough delegates.

He said he, DNC chairman Howard Dean and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi had agreed to avoid a convention fight and are pushing superdelegates to pick sides now.

With Post Wire Services

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