2012 -- 2012 Migration: How to Reassign Distribution Points that Reside on Source Secondary Site Servers to the Target Site

Source hierarchy AAA is at 2012 R2 CU3 and contains a primary site and 14 secondary sites (A01 through A14). The 14 secondary site servers hold the following roles:
Site system
Management Point
State migration point
Site server
Site database server
Component server
Distribution Point
Target hierarchy BBB is also at 2012 R2 CU3 and contains only a primary site.  The goal is to "downgrade" the severs at source secondary sites A01 through A14 to distribution points.
AAA was added as a source site.  Data gathering was done.  A migration job was created an run, and distribution points from the source hierarchy were shared to allow a phased migration of the clients.
We have reach the point where we are ready to reassign distribution points in sites A01 through A14 from AAA to BBB, but none of the shared distribution points are eligible for reassignment.  We surmise that since the DP role is not the only role on
these servers (as you can see from the bullet list above), they are ineligible for reassignment.  We are unable to remove most of the roles.  In fact, the only 2 roles that can be removed are the DP role itself, and the State Migration
Point. If we delete the secondary site, it removes ALL roles...not leaving any behind...including the one we need...DP.
My question is 2-part:
Is our assumption correct?  Must a DP role be the only one on the server for a DP to be eligible for reassignment?
Is there any way we can reassign these DPs instead of deleting everything and building them from scratch?
These secondary site servers are in branch offices and host a lot of distributed packages.  It would be very inconvenient to have to rebuild the DPs from scratch and redistribute all those packages over the WAN.

Full Disclosure: I have never used this tool myself. I intend to, however the opportunity or time to do so has not yet arisen.
You could use the techniques outlined in CloneDP (https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/CloneDP-for-SCCM-2012-SP1-825ce5b1) to create prestage media on each DP and rebuild. That at least would prevent redistributing over the WAN
Ken provides a nice writeup too: http://blogs.technet.com/b/kensmith/archive/2013/08/01/migrating-the-content-library-between-distribution-points-in-sccm-2012-sp1.aspx

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