I did some research on the web and found a video that showed that I can easily replace the door lock. The next step was to order the part. I had used AppliancePartsPros.com in the past, did a quick part search, ordered it and the part arrived in less than 2 days at my house. Its super easy to replace the door lock, you just remove the water seal from the washing machine front end loader, detach the electrical wires and the backup unlock hook and attach the new part. It was a little difficult to put the water sealant back as the spring is a little hard to put on, but we were successful at last. The washing was back running.
Kudos to AppliancePartsPro.com for the speedy delivery, saved us from the accumulating dirty laundry.