Before deleting, is there a different wallet software that will allow me to load the seed created by electrum?
There's no other desktop wallet software that I know of that can load electrum seeds.
Don't delete your electrum wallet just yet. Right click each address in it that contains coins and click "private key" in the list that appears. Your wallet should then show you a private key that you can copy.
After you copy all the relevant private keys you can import or sweep them into some alternative wallet software.