I thought I'd update my question with my own answer and explain the process I had to perform on the ZD's without support contracts so I could patch them for the krack attack.
I contacted Ruckus Support via
https://support.ruckuswireless.com/contact-us I started an online chat session and explained the scenario. The rep I originally spoke to said he would have to escalate it to the engineers and someone would contact me. Within a very short period of time (can't recall but it was fast), someone reached out to me via email to let me know they'd contact me by phone in 15 mins. I explained the situation, then replied to their original email with my ZD serial numbers.
They replied a short time later with 3 entitlement files (aka support contracts) and I could upload those to the Administer >> Support tabs on each ZD.
Two of the entitlement files were for one day only (they were the oldest ZD's I had without a support contract. I had to follow the support path which mean updating from 9.8.x -> 9.9.x ->9.10.x -> 9.12 -> 10.0.1.0 (or something very similar, refer to the update documents to see the exact path you need to follow)
The rep told me they would expire in one day whether or not I would use them and he wanted me to perform the first update with him over the phone so he knew it was going to work. Once I performed the first update successfully I let the rep go so I could let him assist other people. It took a bit of time to follow the support path but I was able to successfully upgrade the ZD's without support contract thanks to the Support Team at Ruckus.
The ZD's support contract expired on the next day but everything was up to date. The third support contract was for a bit longer, but none of them was for 30 days.
I have to say, I am not a fan of the 10.0.x UI... I really miss the dash board with all the important info like Serial Number, Software Version, Up Time and the customized widgets we could setup. The important factor is the systems are now protected.
Regardless, the updates were successful thanks to Ruckus for letting us do that!